Stewart O'Nan Quotes
Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
Quotes to Explore
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
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I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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Any aspirational job is tough because everyone wants to do it.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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One of the things that I've found in everything that I've done: People want leaders to create a sense of direction and to lead and to act.
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Villains are fun to play.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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On 'Heaven Beside You'. **Interview with Request Magazine, February 1996.
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Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
