Donna Tartt Quotes
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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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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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
