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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
