Lois McMaster Quotes
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
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.
Naomi Watts -
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright -
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus -
I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik -
We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
T. J. Miller -
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming -
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Dana Spiotta
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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.
Ferdinand Mount -
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Kate Moss -
'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
Dana Ashbrook -
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
Patrick deWitt -
'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
Fernando Pessoa
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It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.
Elizabeth Berg -
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
Daniel Yergin -
I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
Abbie Cornish -
I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
Pat Buckley -
Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
Lois McMaster