Tananarive Due Quotes
I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
Quotes to Explore
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.
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The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
