Isabel Allende Quotes
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I would love to do Broadway again.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
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Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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There is much quiet joy in writing: there is exercise for the imagination, escape from the shackled body, solace for the troubled mind.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
