Chirlane McCray Quotes
It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.
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My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
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We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
