Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.
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The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.
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A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
