Tatyana Ali Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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Bling is good.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
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People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.
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Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
