Piers Anthony Quotes
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
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I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.
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It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
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I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
