Tanith Lee Quotes
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
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Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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It is one thing to be successful on the field, but to be recognized for something off-field is a completely different and inspiring feeling.
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He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
