Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.
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Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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People think I'm a gambler. I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house.
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
