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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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
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My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
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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?
