Tanith Lee Quotes
'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.
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Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
