Donna Tartt Quotes
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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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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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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I would love to have my own lingerie line.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
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In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.
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I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.
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This is a veterans memorial. This is where Jackson honors its dead. This is the most meaningful place to be because we're honoring our dead.
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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
