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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about risk, commerce, writers

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

Quote by Lynn Abbey

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden ''worthless'' land now has an airport on it.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money, state, good, good luck

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, fiction, literature, people

The DUP leader, Ian Paisley, also needs to face up to his responsibilities to join in the collective challenge of peace making.

Quote by Gerry Adams about peace, face

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Quote by Albert Camus about education, books, day, knowledge

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Quote by Michael Chabon about miracle, interest

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

Quote by Michael Chabon

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Quote by Placido Domingo about voice, bad luck, bad

Invaluable art collections and a small but first rank symphony orchestra carry the fame of Winterthur far across the borders of Switzerland.

Quote by Richard Ernst about fame, art, magic

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Quote by William Falconer about life

I had a Nagra, one of the first portable machines. I started collecting sounds without any preconceived notions other than a desire to insert into musical discourse a sound that basically didn't belong there.

Quote by Luc Ferrari

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about democracy, life

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

Quote by Peter Fonda

That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried to make a collection of images that didn't really involve people.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about life, people

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

Quote by Salma Hayek about couple

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about action, self-control

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about adventure, impossible, peace