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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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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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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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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Acting is very immediate.
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This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
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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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I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
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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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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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I have been singing for as long as I could talk.
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Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
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I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.
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She swung like a pendulum, ticking away the seconds until she would be dead.
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.
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I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
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Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.
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I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
