Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.
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Every day is a brand-new, completely crazy fantasy-adventure, where I'm either kicking ass or kicking balls. It's all part of the job. All of that is really fun for everyone. It plays like a comic book superhero.
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At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
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Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
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I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.
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The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling.
