Teresa Palmer Quotes
I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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Patience is the secret to good food.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.
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My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
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I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.
