Lois McMaster Quotes
And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.
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I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.
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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.
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However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.
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Deal-making is an ability you're born with. It's in the genes.
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The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'
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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
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Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
