Mark Lawrence Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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You're only as good as your last pass.
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I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.
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I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.
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I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.