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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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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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 never wanted to be a playwright.
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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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The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
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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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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
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When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
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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.
