Tanith Lee Quotes
'When will they fight?' I asked.'Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.'I laughed. 'I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.'
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
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'When will they fight?' I asked.'Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.'I laughed. 'I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.'
