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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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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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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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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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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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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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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We did have three go to the YMCA.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
