L. E. Modesitt Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I don't think that anything that anyone is doing today that is being pointed at as the "enemy" or "the problem" is as dangerous to our future as the fact that there are so many pointed fingers. The pointed finger is the enemy.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
