Elizabeth Moon Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
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The injuries worry me because they all seem to be long term.
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You are repetitious and stupid.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
