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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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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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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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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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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My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.
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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.
