Decadence is wonderful.

I write novels and other things.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

Decadence is wonderful.

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Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

Constructions of a rhythmical forms the clash between concrete and abstract forms.The acute angle is passionate and dynamic expressing will and a penetrating force.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

You must forgive me for I struggled only for you.

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

Go where you feel most alive.

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.

No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

If you spend all day on horseback and you hop off you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

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