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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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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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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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
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I try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.
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I used to work in Starbucks.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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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.
