Candice Millard Quotes
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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I want to love life.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
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Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
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I have a very flexible and easy schedule that affords me a wonderful lifestyle in Los Angeles. I'm able to be a very present mother, able to pursue other projects.
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
