Tawni O'Dell Quotes
I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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Many body events that you think of in your society as negative - certain viruses, for example - are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.
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I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
