Rainbow Rowell Quotes
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
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I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.
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It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
