Jill McCorkle Quotes
You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
Quotes to Explore
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.
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The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
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I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
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As long as we deliver services with the highest level of quality and integrity, I'm happy.
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I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
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You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
