Tamora Pierce Quotes
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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I take my work seriously.
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
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When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.
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My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.
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I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.