Elizabeth Moon Quotes
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.
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If you were an artist or novelist, or a poet or somebody like that, nobody would think it odd if you worked in your own home. In science there's none of this at all. I'm almost the only independent scientist in Britain. Everybody else works in large institutions, universities, or industrial labs. Why should one expect scientists to work that way?
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
