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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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that.
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No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.
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I'm kind of a double middle child.
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He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
