L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Quotes

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

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I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.

Jeremy Scott

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If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

Andy Griffith

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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

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You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

Louie Gohmert

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I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

Dennis Quaid

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I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

Doug Stanhope

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I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.

Chauncey Billups

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Even when I was a child, my best friend was a 92-year-old woman.

Allison Williams

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I'm just a reporter.

Alissa Quart

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The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.

Prabal Gurung

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Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

Susan Vreeland

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