Tawni O'Dell Quotes
I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Excellence always sells.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.
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I do have the 'girl next door' image.
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We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
