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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?


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TED CRUZ It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ...
TED CRUZ I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
TED CRUZ I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
TED CRUZ In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
TED CRUZ I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
TED CRUZ Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
TED CRUZ The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world...
TED CRUZ When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi...
TED CHIANG I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol...
TED CHIANG We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
TED CHIANG I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhal...
TED CHIANG There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, ...
TED CHIANG Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
TED BELL I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is ...
TED BELL