Donna Tartt Quotes
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
