Elizabeth Moon Quotes
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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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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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
