Lisa Gardner Quotes

What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

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• I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Home

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Day

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Look

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
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  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
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  • American

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
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• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.

  

  Jack Horner
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• I love receiving fan mail.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
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  • Truth
  • Science

• Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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• Diana became a superstar when she became a part of the Royal Family because she brought youth and glamour and fun into a staid and dusty institution, and at times she eclipsed the Prince of Wales. It was one of the early problems within their marriage.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Family
  • She
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• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
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• I don't like Paris so much.

  

  Bam Margera
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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • World
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• There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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  • Justice
  • Regret

• What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

  

  Lisa Gardner
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