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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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
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All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.
