Donnie Iris Quotes
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
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I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.
