Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
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The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.
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The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
