Lois McMaster Quotes
When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
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Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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American men are like women.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."
