Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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You write about what you know.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
