Lois McMaster Quotes
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
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Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
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Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
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Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.
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I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
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I'm a sucker for a good country song.
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I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.
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'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
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If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
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When government grows, it breaks the family.
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If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?
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I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
