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 better to do a film that works.
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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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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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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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I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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If I want my chips? Yeah, I want my chips. Who is this?
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I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.
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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.
