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

• A lot of people will think I changed the book: ‘so you’re the tiger instead, you’re the tiger who ate the cook.’ That’d be totally expository, like in the book, ‘you’re the tiger’ and then it stops there. That seems to have the magic touch. I bring everything together. That’s why he made up the story, the whole thing becomes internalized. That might be the magic, but all I did is not so much interpreted, but try my best to keep everybody still staying in the movie. And I was like, ‘God, it’s so hard to do.’ I make movies for a long time. It doesn't get easier.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Difficult

• It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Fun
  • Past
  • Made

• It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Audience
  • Company

• It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Easier
  • Permission