Laura Anne Gilman Quotes
When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.
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What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
