Lilith Saintcrow Quotes
As much as I devoured comics, I read non-graphic books exponentially more, so I'm not sure I can credit or blame them. Comics, however, taught me a lot about what makes a story arc work and how to bring a story to its natural resting place between issues.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.
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I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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As much as I devoured comics, I read non-graphic books exponentially more, so I'm not sure I can credit or blame them. Comics, however, taught me a lot about what makes a story arc work and how to bring a story to its natural resting place between issues.
