Dinah Sheridan Quotes
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
