Danielle Trussoni Quotes
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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Sophocles taught us that the greatest of all human laws is justice… and I think that is something we have to remember.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
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I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.
