Piers Anthony Quotes
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting is in your soul.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
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Don't let me die in an automobileI wanna lie in an open fieldWant the snakes to suck my skinWant the worms to be my friendsWant the birds to eat my eyesAs here I lieThe clouds fly by
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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
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Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.
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New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat robots, and laser weapons.
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I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
