David Weber Quotes
'No problem, kaja' Lara nodded with exaggerated obeisance. 'You may lead, so long as we may follow.'
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.
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Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
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I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."
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'No problem, kaja' Lara nodded with exaggerated obeisance. 'You may lead, so long as we may follow.'
