Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab.
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I don't claim to be a guru, or a leader or anything like that because I think that's the first point people really lose on.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.
