Mary Doria Russell Quotes
The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
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It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
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My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.
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The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
