Marie Brennan Quotes
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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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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I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
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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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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.
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When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.
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Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.
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I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
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Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.
