I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements … - Cory Doctorow

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You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.

Cory Doctorow

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Down, Down And, Elements, Look, Looks, Page

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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

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He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

Ewoks, Listening, Room, Rooms, Spellbound

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

Book, Cheap, Mean, Reading, Screen

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U. S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

Country, Descendants, Gdp, Home, Pirate, Pull

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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Jennifer Beals

[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.

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Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

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Hideo Kojima

You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.

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Anuj

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

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