Zachary Lazar Quotes
What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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As far as Indian artists are concerned, I really like Mohammad Rafi and Sonu Nigam.
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We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.
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I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
