Alafair Burke Quotes
There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!
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I've always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, and wearing carcasses.
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Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.
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Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the bluesAnd you know it don't come easy.
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There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.
