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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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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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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Movies are great, TV is great.
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Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
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Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.
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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.
