Anne McCaffrey Quotes
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'
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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
