Tana French Quotes

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

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• If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • House
  • Same
  • Week

• In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Past
  • Action

• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
  • Pain

• Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Great
  • Pain

• Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• Change is no threat to culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Threat

• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I am supposed to set an example to young players.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Young
  • Players
  • Example

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Politics
  • Compassion

• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Government
  • Special
  • Will

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Guess
  • Willingness
  • Audacity

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Cynicism

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Like
  • Story
  • Elements

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Good
  • Try
  • Moves

• The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Know
  • Eating
  • Mindset

• Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Fear
  • Mean
  • Worry

• If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

  

  Tana French
  • You
  • Need
  • Terrible