Donna Tartt Quotes
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.Donna Tartt
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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.
Sam Heughan -
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
Daisy Donovan -
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.
Nancy Pelosi -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard
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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.
Gary Webb -
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.
Victor Cruz -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
Zell Miller -
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.
Parker Stevenson -
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.
Natasha Bedingfield
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim -
I don't let anything kill my spirit.
Uday Kiran -
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop -
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.
Eddie Murphy -
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.
Eddy Cue -
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
Kaley Cuoco
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
Edgar Ramirez -
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
E. O. Wilson -
Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
Yves Behar -
All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.
Elvis Stojko -
I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.
Kevin Eubanks -
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
Donna Tartt