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 like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.
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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
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I take the time to show up for people in my field who are often not seen and heard in the same capacity as I am. Applauding other women and queer writers of color enables me to recognize and showcase the abundance of talent and work being created.
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When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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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.
