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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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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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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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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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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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
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I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
