Isabel Paterson Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.
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I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.
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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
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It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.
