L. E. Modesitt Quotes
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
