Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.
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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
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Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
