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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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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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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That is what we are against the ancient-Greek ideas about art, because that is the key to the classic and tragic finality from which we must free ourselves.
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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions.
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We won't let each other fail.
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
