Linda McCartney Quotes
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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.
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I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
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I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
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Build up virtue, and you master all.
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.
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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
