Steven Saylor Quotes
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
Quotes to Explore
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?
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Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?
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The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.
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Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
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Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.
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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
