Lois McMaster Quotes
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
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I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just play act. And if I can bring people a moment of fun and relief in their lives, well, that's the win.
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And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
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What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
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Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
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One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
