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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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
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If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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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.
