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"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."
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"Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost."
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"Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back."
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"It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate."
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"Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal, it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way."
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"My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D. And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z."
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"If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
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"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."
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"A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind."
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"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
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"Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally."
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"I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do."
Film
"Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives."
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"My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good."
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"I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game."
Competition
"Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true."
Dream
"I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down."
Care
"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."
Fiction
"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."
Goal
"It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing."
Dream
"For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry."
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