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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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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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.
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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.
