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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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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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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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.
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The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.
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I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.
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I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
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My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
