Marjorie Liu Quotes

Part of the reason why my folks - why any immigrant family - wants their kids to go into law or medicine is because there's the promise of reliable work. That's a powerful idea that got hammered into my head growing up: Be this thing, or else you'll starve.

Marjorie Liu

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I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

John Fogerty

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I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved in creating beautiful products and images.

Maureen Chiquet

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The value of streaming platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford a pizza without pepperoni at the end of the year with the revenues. Without musicians, all those platforms wouldn't exist, so we urgently need an appropriate and sustainable business model for musicians for the 21st century.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Simon Schama

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I say some silly things now and again.

Tony Bellew

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Cross-burning is a domestic act of terrorism. It's been classified as such.

Ron Stallworth

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SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

Masayoshi Son

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.

Christy Turlington

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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Shania Twain

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I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

Tyra Banks

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