Piers Anthony Quotes
I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on - so I stopped.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
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Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.'
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It seemed awful crude and raw here when I got back after his return from his third and last trip to Europe, in 1910. It took me ten years to get over Europe.
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
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You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child a child of God becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
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I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on - so I stopped.
