“We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.”
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“To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.”
“People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.”
“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.”
“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”
“People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.”
“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”
“Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.”
“[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.”
“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”
“The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.”
“Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.”
“Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals”
“I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?”
“Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.”
“I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.”
“I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.”
“When you're older you want to learn from other people.”
“Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.”
“People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.”