Lois McMaster Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.
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I am a firm believer in praxis, and I don’t have much time for the idea of the loner of genius who does everything all by himself. You need other people as well, at every level.
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They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
