Lois McMaster Quotes

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • American
  • Chaos

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Free
  • Army

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Question
  • Individual

• I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Find
  • Place

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Trump
  • Ask

• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Fall
  • Vision

• The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Job
  • See

• This is a tough business, and you're asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they're hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • People
  • Business
  • Job

• I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Boyfriend

• All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

  

  Edwin M. Stanton
  • Death
  • Military

• We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.

  

  Van Jones
  • Political
  • Needs
  • Tools

• I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Worst
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