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.

Tracy Chevalier

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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.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Great
  • God
  • Soul

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • You
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Taken
  • Effort
  • Messy

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• New York's definitely got my heart.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Heart
  • New
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• 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?

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • May
  • Problem

• The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Torment
  • Paparazzi

• Aimer, c'est agir

  

  Victor Hugo

• When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

  

  Donald Trump
  • America

• Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Great
  • Important
  • Money

• I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Life

• Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Road

• If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Stop

• Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

  

  R. K. Milholland

• When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow.

  

  Margarita Simonyan

• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Road
  • Years
  • Enemy

• I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Taken
  • Library
  • Distraction