Marie Brennan Quotes
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )
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I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
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I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
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I honor - we honor - the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
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Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.