Lois McMaster Quotes
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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He's scattered, his sentences trail off, he sighs frequently, as though he's so intelligent he's always frustrated by the formulaic nature of speech (each sentence a ride you can't get off once the attendant buckles you into the car).
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This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
