Liane Moriarty Quotes
Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'
