M. J. Rose Quotes
When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
Quotes to Explore
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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We should all love animals.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I scare the neighbors, the kids... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.
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Melania rarely wears American labels, with the exception of Ralph Lauren, who created a duplication of a Jackie Kennedy look, which was basically a costume anyway.
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
