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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Because Building Car Dead Does Dog Ever Gets Knocks Know Like Matter Now Over People Presume Reaction Run Same Seen Superhero Thing Totally Understand Visceral Where Worst Worst Thing

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Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Body Gives Muscles Relax Up Your Your Body

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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Anything Blues Characters Dark Far Feeling Football Hill Like Loved Man Never Remember Seen Star Street Time You I Remember Ahead

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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Age Big Decide Douglas Early Early Age King Kurt Like Made Me Old Phase Something Stephen King Ten Ten Years Through Very Very Early Age Wanted Were Who Writers Years

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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Interest Investment Like Much Reading Something Still Takes Think Time Tremendous Ulysses

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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Associate Book Kenya Nothing Read Think Whenever I Think

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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Blank Blank Slate Culture Everybody Fantasy Onto Own Project Read Slate Sort Way

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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Avatar Before Camera Create Creatures Economical Ended Figuring Green Know Later Like Look Making Maybe Need Out People Putting Realizing Turn Up Way You

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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Later Makes Read Reason Sense Still Thousands Thousands Of Years Years You

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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Feel Feelings Makes Never Opinion Someone Something Them Try Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 23rd, 1971

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