Donna Tartt Quotes
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
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I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
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We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
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In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.
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The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.
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There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn't plan, and often it's better than what you did plan. There's the question of either going with it or not.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
