Chelsea Cain Quotes
I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
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To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.
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My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
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Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
