Lois McMaster Quotes
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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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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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.
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In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.
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Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
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Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
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I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
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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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Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.
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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
