Fred Saberhagen Quotes
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
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You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
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There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
