Tracy Chevalier Quotes
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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Music has always been around with me.
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'When will they fight?' I asked.'Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.'I laughed. 'I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.'
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A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
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There's some of me in all my characters.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
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Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
