Ann Leckie Quotes
It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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To survive is to win.
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I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. I am not going to be a hypocrite and sit here and say something different.
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Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
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I was on the bench watching and I wanted to be out there competing against him. He's a heck of a player. When you run into great players you want to be out there competing with them.
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.
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It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.
