Tanith Lee Quotes
When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.
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In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.
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When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.
