Elizabeth Chandler Quotes
I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.
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I love trying new things.
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Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
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As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.
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I know I'm supposed to say this, but I really, genuinely think Matt Damon is a great dude.
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I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.
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It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
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I think of all the premieres I have ever covered, the Potterheads are the best!
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I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.
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I can't control what a reader takes from a story.
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I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.
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I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
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You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.
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I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.
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I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
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I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
