Donna Tartt Quotes
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
Quotes to Explore
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I love cycling.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.
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I'm very candid.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
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So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.
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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
