Lois McMaster Quotes
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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Any job is wonderful.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
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Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
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I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
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There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.
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One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.
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I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.
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Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.
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I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I'm not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.
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It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
