Lois McMaster Quotes
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.
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The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
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I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.
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Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
