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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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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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
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I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week.
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When I'm filming, I try to get a facial two weeks before I start shooting and then again once I've wrapped. On set they tend to use a lot of make-up, so I like to prepare my skin right before, and then unclog all my pores right after.
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I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.
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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.
