Lois McMaster Quotes
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
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I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.
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The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.
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True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
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On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.
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I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
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I did the best that I could to try to write you songs.
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It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.
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A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
