Barbara Delinsky Quotes
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
