Lois McMaster Quotes
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free
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What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.
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We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
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Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
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It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
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All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
