Anne Wilkes Tucker Quotes
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Th' only way t' entertain some folks is t' listen t' 'em.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)
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You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.
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Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.
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I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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At the heart of art is learning to see
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To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
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All art requires courage.
