Tanith Lee Quotes
Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.
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My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.
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Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.
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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
