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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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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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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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 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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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.
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When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
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A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.
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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.
