Jane Gardam Quotes
I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our with Michael Dumontier style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
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I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
