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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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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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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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
