Lincoln Child Quotes
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.
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Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
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I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.
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Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
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The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
