David Trumble Quotes
I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
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I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
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I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'
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One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
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Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients.
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I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
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I am a Southern girl at heart, so I have a pulled pork sandwich and Key lime pie every day. It's a problem.
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I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.
