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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I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
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I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.
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I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.
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I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.
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I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
