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"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
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"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
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"It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not."
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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
Time
"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
Prequels
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Romantic
"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."
Project
"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."
Fact
"If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities."
Family
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
Communication
"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
Travel
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
Income
"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."
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