Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.
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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
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We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.
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I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.
