Charles Finch Quotes
There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
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For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land. In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
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Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
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If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.
