Tracy Chevalier Quotes
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.
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We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.
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More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
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Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
