Tanith Lee Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
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I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
