Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes
'The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way,' Wicked said. 'Yeah,' I said, 'it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.'
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Women just love to shop.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
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In my mind, I've never lost a fight.
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I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.
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Common decency is a core part of who people are.
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'The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way,' Wicked said. 'Yeah,' I said, 'it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.'
