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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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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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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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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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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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
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Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
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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.
