Elizabeth Moon Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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I don't want to fake anybody out and make them think I'm a great actress.
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I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
