Andrea Seigel Quotes
I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.
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I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.
