Deborah Meier Quotes
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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Stop thinking about failing.
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Won't you rather make love, childrenAs opposed to war, like you know you should?
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'
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I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
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Teaching is listening, learning is talking.
