Lois McMaster Quotes
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.
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Acting is very immediate.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.
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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
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When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.
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If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.
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I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
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As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
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That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
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I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
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Trust yourself, your intuition, your desires and your pursuits. Don't question yourself too much. Place one foot ahead of the other and go forward steadily. No one will understand as you do the work, the art, you are making - so no need to look for audience approval or ratings.
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
