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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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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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 get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
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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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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.
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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
