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 have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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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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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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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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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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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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I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress.
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Aphorisms (1905).
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It's gratifying to hear something familiar and challenging at the same time.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.
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He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
