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Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.


E. R. Stettinius

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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY