Tracy Chevalier Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.
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God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.
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If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
