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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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
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In any creative field-any creative field-you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that-potential-and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. (p. 21)
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I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
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I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.
