Lynne Truss Quotes
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
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People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
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If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
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He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.
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Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
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One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
