Christine McVie Quotes
I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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Writers are so important.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.
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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
