Tanith Lee Quotes
Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.
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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
