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 can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.
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What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
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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.
