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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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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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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Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
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Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.
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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.
