Norman Reilly Raine Quotes
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.
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Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
