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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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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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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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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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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Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
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My father was a journalist.
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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
