Tananarive Due Quotes
I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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I studied Morse code.
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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'
