Anne McCaffrey Quotes
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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Things are not always as old songs tell them to be-especially when it is concerning dragons.
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
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'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.'
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One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.
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I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.
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I have friends who are in the posh category and some who are in the not-at-all-posh category, and some who you would find it very hard to get any sort of handle on. But I am lucky to have any friends, of course.
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Nobody wants to read happy stories.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
