Elizabeth Moon Quotes
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Quotes to Explore
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
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No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. All have particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.
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It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
