Kelley Armstrong Quotes
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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Love and friendship exclude each other.
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I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?
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Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
