Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
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Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.
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I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.
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The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
