Lois McMaster Quotes

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Kids
  • Me

• My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Friend
  • Politics
  • Caught

• I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• The pose begins when you want to leave it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Want
  • Yoga
  • Yoga Practice

• If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Advice

• 'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Story
  • John Kerry
  • Shrek

• Probably would have been sitting on the bench with Connecticut. Who knows? That's just hypothetical stuff you can't even project. But it certainly is a talented team. The growth that he has had here, I think, has been a beneficial factor for him in his overall game.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Team
  • Growth

• My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's vision, hopefully turning an idea into something people can connect to and relate to.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • People
  • Dad
  • Never

• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Treasure

• The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Study
  • Wise

• My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

  

  Melissa Gilbert
  • Children
  • Divorce
  • Complicated

• She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Love
  • Way
  • Easier

• I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Giving
  • Energy
  • Balance

• For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

  

  Charles II
  • Merit
  • Knight
  • Sir-Loin

• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
  • Story
  • Look

• It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Easier
  • Permission