Martha Wells Quotes
I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I was a tomboy.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.
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Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing-finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
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There's no California tan about me. People assume I can't tan, but I actually can. I went on a trip to Hawaii when I was younger and came back so tan that people were like, 'What happened?' It's just not something I actively do. I want to embrace my ivory.
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Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
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I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.
