Marie Brennan Quotes

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

Marie Brennan

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• No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Say
  • Pressure

• I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Thought
  • Better
  • Doing

• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  

  Ovid
  • Matter
  • Easy
  • Anybody

• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Literally
  • Graphics
  • Update

• I have to be where the best work can be done.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Work
  • Done
  • Best

• Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Work
  • Living
  • Work Hard

• To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Job

• When I started Instagram, I kind of just did what I like to do or to show the things I like, whether it be sneakers or weird flowers, have the little drops of myself and my style kind of fluidly throughout. That was really helpful in starting and carving out my own place.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Myself
  • Style
  • Weird

• In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Learning

• I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feel
  • Inspired

• I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • May
  • Me
  • Crazy

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Fighting
  • Him

• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Perspective

• And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Lost
  • Road

• Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn’t control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Man
  • Control
  • Difference

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Horrible

• You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Trust

• I think the week off is a good thing now, especially for David. Resting the knee is important.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Important
  • I Think
  • Good Thing

• I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

  

  Marie Brennan