Susan Orlean Quotes
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Quotes to Explore
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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He's every adventure I ever want to be on.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
