Sally Quinn Quotes
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.
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I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
