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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The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
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The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.
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When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.
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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.
