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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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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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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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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I didn't study; I live.
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I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.
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No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
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My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
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I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.
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I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people's collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn't usually happen without a plan.
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We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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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.
