Donna Tartt Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
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Definitely do the work. Don't expect to blow up overnight. Go out, do the work, and enjoy the ride. That's really my mantra. I'm not in a hurry to be anywhere fast. I'm just enjoying the ride.
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When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.
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I really do work in solitude.
