Lois McMaster Quotes
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall... that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.
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I am so rich that I must give myself away.
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The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
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As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.
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My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.
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When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.
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I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
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I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.
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When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
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After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.
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You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.
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A good rule of thumb is every couple of hours take fifteen minutes off. Naps are also very helpful, short naps. Even a ten or fifteen minute nap in the middle of the day can be the equivalent of an hour and a half of extra sleep the night before, and it can raise your effective IQ by ten points.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
