Debbie Macomber Quotes
I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
Quotes to Explore
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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School didn't work for me. I hated it.
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What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.
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The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
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I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
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I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
