Tanith Lee Quotes
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.
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I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
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Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
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When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
