Sharon Kay Penman Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
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People think of me and think, 'Ibiza and hippy look.' I'm trying to expand.
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Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
