Tanith Lee Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
