Rose Tremain Quotes
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.
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Sleep is over-rated. When you're creating, travelling, and having the best time of your life the last thing on your mind is sleep.
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We do not want a united Germany. This would lead to a change to postwar borders, and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security.
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We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.
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I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.
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Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
