Donna Tartt Quotes
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
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I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
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I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
