Lauren Tarshis Quotes
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
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The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
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The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
