Donna Tartt Quotes

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Donna Tartt

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• People take things so seriously.

  

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• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

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• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

  

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• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  

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• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

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• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

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• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  

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• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

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• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

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• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

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• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

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• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

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• I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

  

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• Bullies always have another target.

  

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• Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

  

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• The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.

  

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• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

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• I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.

  

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• Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.

  

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• I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

  

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• Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

  

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• I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Children