Tracy Chevalier Quotes
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
Quotes to Explore
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
