Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
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Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
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If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
