Donna Tartt Quotes
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.
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I hope my kids can experience the seasons and a climate that's sustainable. The idea that things are going to be so very different for them is slightly scary.
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By making the Word our final authority and making a quality decision to place our faith in God at all costs, we experience His best in every situation.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.
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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
