L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Quotes

When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1943

Topics

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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Jerry Cantrell

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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

Mel Torme

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Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Michael Heizer

MeViewEnvironmentLandscapeDown

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose

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So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

Sophia Bush

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If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who's better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

Steven Crowder

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I want to regain the trust of the Brazilian people and all the sectors of society.

Michel Temer

TrustPeopleSocietyWantBrazilian

When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.

Michael Pollan

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The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.

Jon Batiste

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My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.

Boris Trajkovski

LifeFaithMeFeelMy LifeCountry

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Ausonius

WisdomYouSheFavorsFortune

Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.

Anne Dudek

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