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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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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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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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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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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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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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.
