Elizabeth Moon Quotes
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.
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As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.
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I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.
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The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.
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Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered.
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Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
