Rainbow Rowell Quotes
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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Brothers don`t necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
