Gene Wolfe Quotes
We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Fashion should be playful.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
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I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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I have never, ever, received any taunts or any form of anti-Semitism. And I suppose being a Jewish football player with the Atlanta Falcons was no different than being a Baptist football player with the Atlanta Falcons. But in the back of your mind, you always expect something to happen.
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The more confident you are, the less doubt you will have, and the more likely your success will be.
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To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.
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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.
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I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
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We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves.
