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've been really lucky.
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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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On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
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New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part.
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This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.
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And the first king was a lucky soldier.
