Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
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We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
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Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
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I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
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I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
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There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
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The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
