Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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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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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.
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If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
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I’m someone who’d rather understand reality than play pretends.
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Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.
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Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
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I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
