Lisa Tuttle Quotes
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.
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Something once lost will never return
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When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.
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Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
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My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
