Lois McMaster Quotes
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I would like to see America some day.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.
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You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
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When I first travelled to New York in 1982 on a summer holiday as a student, I remember thinking how exciting it was, how energising it felt, and also how it felt dangerous - it was a place where you could make a wrong turn, either geographically or just in a human interaction, and suddenly find yourself in trouble.
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And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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I have the personality where, although my ego can be healthy, sometimes I also feel like people won't remember me, or they won't know who I am.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
