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 do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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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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Donald Trump has put some professional people around himself. Experienced. Successful. I know a lot of people seem to think that success and experience are reasons you shouldn't serve in public office. But they are knowledgeable and smart, and they've been around the world.
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I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.
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You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.
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The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.
