Francine Pascal Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
