Deborah Moggach Quotes
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
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Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
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The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
