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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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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I'm a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy.
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It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.
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Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
