Lois McMaster Quotes
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
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The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
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English superiority and American obedience.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.
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I have a very dark sense of humor.
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It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
