Elizabeth Moon Quotes
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
Quotes to Explore
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.
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I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.
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I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle room. Sometimes there is a bit more room to explore and work on the floor. On a TV set, you really have to be ultra-prepared and ready to deliver because time is so tight. Not that you don't have to be prepared for film.
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
