Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I have a great office.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.
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I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.
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People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.
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Reconquer the streets, the markets – the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.
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I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
