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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When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.
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I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
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Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.
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When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
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Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
