"I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point."

-- Daniel Suarez

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“The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a human woman covered in swamp yuck, with wild red hair sticking out in matted hunks and arms flailing like a demented Bride of Frankenstein. I'd run from me.”
“To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.”
“So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.”
“My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.”

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“I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?”
“Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.”
“I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.”
“In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery.”

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