Tracy Chevalier Quotes
I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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I'm always honest.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.
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Since I've been home-schooled since sixth grade, I've practiced six to seven hours a day. I wake up, practice for three hours in the morning, eat lunch, and then go out and play eighteen or more holes.
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The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
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I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
