Edward M. Lerner Quotes
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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Die Kleinen schaffen, der Große erschafft.
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I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
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My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
