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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.


J. R. R. Tolkien

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R. J. RUSHDOONY I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and...
J. R. MARTINEZ I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now ...
J. R. MARTINEZ Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal...
J. R. MOEHRINGER In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the g...
J. R. MOEHRINGER The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. Th...
R. J. CUTLER I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I ca...
J. R. SMITH Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You...
J. R. SMITH How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look int...
R. J. CAMPBELL Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Sa...
R. J. CAMPBELL It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, des...
R. J. CAMPBELL When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that&...
J. R. CELSKI There are no accidents, everything is planned.
J. R. WHITEMAN El señor Traseronian miró al público.
-"Más amables de lo necesario" - repitió -. Qué fra...
PALACIO R. J. I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of ...
J. R. SMITH Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
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