Lois McMaster Quotes
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
