M. J. Rose Quotes
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.
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Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
