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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Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
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I've made a variety of trades in my career, but that was obviously one of the best.
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To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
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'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.
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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?
