Lois McMaster Quotes

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Personality
  • Angry
  • Roles

• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Best

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Work
  • Home
  • Environmental

• It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Protection

• Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Player

• I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Girl

• All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Music
  • House

• You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Time
  • Done

• Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • Art
  • Confused

• You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

  

  Liberace

• I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

  

  Charity Shea
  • Life
  • Important
  • Food

• Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.

  

  The Boz
  • Up
  • America
  • Today

• I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Memories

• In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Interesting
  • Fly

• It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • People
  • Movie

• There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Blood
  • Vegetables
  • Turnips

• I'm one of those few actresses who works all the time, and even though I haven't done a show that literally puts me on some kind of map - as in, that's how I'm known and that's how I'll always be known - I'm very lucky.

  

  Rena Sofer
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Show

• From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

  

  Lois McMaster
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