Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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We are wiser than we know.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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We've always been for women and for biggin' up their self-esteem. That's why we do songs like 'Independent.'
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For St. Thomas Aquinas the problem was rather different. It was a question of how to integrate philosophy into sacred science, not only without allowing either the one or the other to suffer essentially thereby, but to the greater benefit of both. In order to achieve this result, he had to integrate a science of reason with a science of revelation without corrupting at the same time both the purity of reason and the purity of revelation.
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I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.
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We don’t stop hiking because we grow old – We grow old because we stop hiking.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
