Liane Moriarty Quotes
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I still have a young attitude.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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America is huge.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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All my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead.
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The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
