S. M. Stirling Quotes
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.
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He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.
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Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.
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I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
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And the first king was a lucky soldier.
