Frank Herbert Quotes
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.
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The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.
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When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, ‘Well, it’s men hurting other men.’ When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, ‘Well, it’s blacks hurting blacks.’ The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.
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Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anyway. If I'm promoting my book, like, for the next two weeks, I'm flat out. But then I'm off again. And when you've got the next product, it's the same; you just condense it into a couple of weeks.
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The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.
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I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.
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The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
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The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
