"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Ability, Saying, Skill, Worth

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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

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"We are capable of greatness."

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

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"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

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"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"

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"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."

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"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."

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"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese."

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"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."

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"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."

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