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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My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?
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My work up to then had been very uneven, I would be good one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer. But I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.
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An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
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A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.
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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.
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Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
