J. A. Jance Quotes
When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.J. A. Jance
Quotes to Explore
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I am tone deaf.
Rachelle Lefevre -
You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
Jack Harbaugh -
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
P. J. Harvey -
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
Valerie Simpson -
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Zadie Smith
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
Parker Stevenson -
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
Malcolm McDowell -
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
B. B. King -
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
B. D. Wong -
I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal -
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
Sam Shepard
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I like musicals and I love music.
Wayne Rooney -
When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
Malin Akerman -
No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
Irwin Redlener -
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
Walter Gropius -
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.
Kurt Eichenwald -
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
Marianne Williamson -
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
Carl Hagelin -
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
Ariel Dorfman -
When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.
J. A. Jance