Deanna Raybourn Quotes
The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
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It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.
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I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
