Lois McMaster Quotes
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.
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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate - you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
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Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
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We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
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Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
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There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
