Tracy Chevalier Quotes

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

Tracy Chevalier

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• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • You
  • Always

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Long
  • Conviction

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Women
  • Children
  • Own

• You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Heart
  • Career
  • Giving

• Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Way
  • Like

• I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Trust
  • Military
  • Censorship

• We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Free

• He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

  

  J. F. Powers
  • Himself
  • Utility
  • Precipice

• If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hair

• I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Done
  • Food
  • Entrepreneur

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Light

• It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Teachers
  • Rewarded

• I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feels