Lois McMaster Quotes
Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
