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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I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
