Rachel Gibson Quotes
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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No man is invincible.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
