Paul S. Kemp Quotes
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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One saw I was alive. Loosenedhis belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.
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While universal suffrage remains an ideal yet to be attained, if you're lucky enough to be able to vote, don't let that privilege go to waste.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
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Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
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Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
