Esther M. Friesner Quotes
I didn’t know you could waste a whole day over dressmaking. The next morning I learned that you can waste another day over the same stupid dresses.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
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There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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The only problem I have with computers and television is that when all cultures on earth reach the stage we are at it will lead to a kind of homogenization.
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Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.
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Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.
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... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
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I didn’t know you could waste a whole day over dressmaking. The next morning I learned that you can waste another day over the same stupid dresses.
