Tanith Lee Quotes
And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.
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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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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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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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It's so easy to become caught up by, 'I've got to do this,' or, 'I've got to do that,' and most of the times, the best stuff comes from when you are not trying to do anything and when you let go.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.
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And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.
