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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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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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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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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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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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'
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You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
