Rose Tremain Quotes
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
Quotes to Explore
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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'Jump Street,' I knew we had a great time. It didn't matter, didn't know if it was going to do well.
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People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.
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In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
