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.Tracy Chevalier
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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.
Nancy Pelosi -
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
Adam Grant -
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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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.
Laura Miller -
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston -
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson -
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Fran Drescher -
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Irvine Welsh -
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.
Orson Pratt
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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.
Iain Banks -
If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
Kary Mullis -
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.
Dan Rosensweig -
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie Chan -
Music has always been around with me.
Eddie Murphy -
'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.'
Tanith Lee
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A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
Brian Wilson -
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
Conan O'Brien -
My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
Dylan Penn -
I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.
Mary Balogh -
I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
Virginia Woolf -
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.
Tracy Chevalier