Barbara Delinsky Quotes

Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

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• Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Night
  • Fashion
  • Challenge

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Political
  • Better
  • Media

• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • You
  • Goal
  • Understand

• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Eggs
  • Fresh
  • Farm

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Popular
  • Word
  • Dirty

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Yourself
  • Mirror
  • Choice

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

  

  Dave Van Ronk
  • Good

• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Use
  • Wells

• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Music
  • Play

• Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Different
  • Need
  • Own