Gail Honeyman Quotes
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
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Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
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The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.
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I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don't think I was very good in costume, so it's better that I prefer being an actress.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
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I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.
