Lois McMaster Quotes
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.
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I care about my quality of life and money.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
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I have good memories of Bangalore.
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It's difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.
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The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.
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I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
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Indignant Man resumes the shaft he gave, Disarms the tyrant, and unbinds the slave, Displays the unclad skeleton of kings, Spectres of power, and serpents without stings.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
