Fred Saberhagen Quotes
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.
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I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
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I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
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When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
Antony Sher -
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
