Lauren Willig Quotes
As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Everything works out how it should.
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If our love were but more simple,We should take Him at His word;And our lives would be all sunshineIn the sweetness of the Lord.
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This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.
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One of our rules for the show, I guess the filter we try to pass everything through, is it's a safe place for women to be. It's not a show for women, because we're basically 50/50 men/women in our audience, but it's a safe place where women win. Women never lose on our show. I think that's very important. It's very unusual.
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The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
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As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
