Lois McMaster Quotes

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

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• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Good
  • Impression
  • Elements

• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Business
  • Arts

• I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • High
  • Strong

• I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Today
  • Feel
  • Old

• And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Father

• While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Inspired

• 'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Good
  • Children

• I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • America
  • Partner

• We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Country
  • Mom
  • Rock

• Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.

  

  Benjamin Stockham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the other shot at the WWE championship.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Career

• I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Control
  • Focus

• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • Life
  • Beginning

• Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

  

  Lucia Micarelli

• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Favorite

• One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Life
  • Quality

• I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Work
  • Song
  • Small

• Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.

  

  Ahdaf Soueif
  • Civilization
  • Dreaming
  • Egypt

• Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • American
  • Lyrics

• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  

  Lois McMaster