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I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you
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The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
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I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
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When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
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If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)
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You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.
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Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.
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You were made to be kissed, often and well.
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The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.
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You look different now. Like a proper little girl, (said Gendry.) I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns, (said Arya.) Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change.
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Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
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For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
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No one who wears a crown is ever safe.
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They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
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