Elissa Schappell Quotes
In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.
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A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her.
