Marissa Moss Quotes
New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
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Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
