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Robin Hobb Quotes

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1952

Topics

Enough Body Person Say Want Old

I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

Morning Tea Wait Color Know Mean

That's usually what I indulge in if I play some games - pinball.

Play Games Indulge Some Pinball

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

Political America Down Surrender Us

It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.

Lie People Me Care Mission You

Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

Government Eating Energy Independence

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Louise Bourgeois

Childhood Mystery Drama Lost Never

Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

Job King Win World Trying Will

I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

Be Strong Survive Believe Strong You

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Look Never Writer Happened Wanted

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Think You Pictures Lens See Through

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

Life Animal Plant Rocks Soil Dead

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

Care Talking You Want Never Always

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