Tracy Hickman Quotes
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
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If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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I will play on this blessed earth until I die.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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I'll say anything to live.
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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
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I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.
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How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best.
