Lois McMaster Quotes
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
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Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.
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The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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I learn lessons with every interview I give.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
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Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
