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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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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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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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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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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I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.
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Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
