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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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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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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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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HMS Surprise (1973)
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Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late - not that it would've affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would've affected my decision to appear on the show.
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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.
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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."
