Tanith Lee Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
