Piers Anthony Quotes
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
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The beauty industry is changing every minute.
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A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
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I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
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Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
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When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.
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If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
