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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The moment when you find out when you shoot the pilot - getting the pilot is a small victory. You shoot the pilot, and when you get picked up, that's a huge victory right there.
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I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.
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The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
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Oh dear. I so mistrust it when "impossible" is one's initial reaction to an idea.
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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
