"As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones."

-- Joan D. Vinge

#Queens Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.”
“Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line”

Source : Song: Locked Out Of Heaven, Album: Unorthodox Jukebox, 2012
“If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.”
“In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.”
“Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion,...”
“But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.”
“A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could”

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