Deborah Wiles Quotes
I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
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I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
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I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
