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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	I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.   
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	Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.   
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	'Bad and Boujee' connects with everybody.   
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	The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.   
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	For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.   
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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?   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					