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7721 Author Quotes

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Being Could Go Human
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Fantasy Most Short ShortStories
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Field Learn Own Read
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
Learn Older Other People
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My business is to prevent the future.

Business Future Prevent
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Control Does Muse Work
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He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

Blow He Take Would
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Almost AlmostAll Book Dead
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You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

People Problem See You
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Fun HaveFun Ideas Play
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You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Cooking Got Had Know
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You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
Everyone Like Make Please
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
Like People Person Serious
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Boring Myself Philosopher See
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

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My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Entertain Goal Myself Others
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That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.

Earlier Getting Hours Less
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

ByThePeople ForThePeople Got Government
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

About First Landing Mars
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Sometimes I think change is a good thing.
A Good Thing Change Good Good Thing
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The important thing is to be in love with something.

Important ImportantThing Love Something
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So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

Dangerous Doing Focus Get
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All of my writing is God-given.
God-Given Writing
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Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

Big Hearts Obviously People
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Disastrous Forget God Lesson
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I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Always Authentic Authentic Self Self
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Amount Certain Dignity Everything
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I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

About Appreciate Contract Couple
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I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Candy Disappointing Feel Going
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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

Am Become Been Corny
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I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

About Announce Blow Calling
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I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Badger Beg Call Everyone
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But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Dinner Enjoy Hour I Think
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But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

Animal Around Brushing Course
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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.

Always Comfortable Day Each
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And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

Able Being Comfortable Day
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And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

About Always Aspect Busy
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A lot people I know - it drives them crazy when they're watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there's something that's very inclusive about it.

About Crazy Drives Inclusive
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Autobiography Self-Indulgent
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

Person First Novel Must
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And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

Books Dropping Full Like
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Mind State Thought Quality
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Heard Neither Read Seen
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Love Men Novel Short
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Trusted Greater compliment Loved
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Work Required Sacred idleness
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Her heart Fallen sides Inexhaustible fountain
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Man finds Want God Gives
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Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Seeing Believing
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To try to be brave is to be brave.
Try Brave
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