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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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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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 was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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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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Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
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And the first king was a lucky soldier.
