Tanith Lee Quotes
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I'm very, very blessed.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
