M. J. Rose Quotes
When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
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When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.
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The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
