Barbara Mertz Quotes
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
