Tanith Lee Quotes
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.
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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
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I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
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If I had been out in the industry instead of being a college kid who had an idea for another T-shirt, I would have been too scared to do anything.
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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Night, the dark widow, came walking on the hills.
