Tracy Chevalier Quotes
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
Quotes to Explore
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
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The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.
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I can't re-define music every week!
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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
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The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.
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I care about Bahrain.
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So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
