Tony Hillerman Quotes

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 27, 1925 - October 26, 2008

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I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jesse McCartney

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When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

Joan Chen

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In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

Amitava Kumar

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I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

Sofia Vergara

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It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Tom Stewart

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It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.

Roger Andrew Taylor

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As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

Jonathan Demme

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I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.

Debbie Ford

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I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

Claudia Christian

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I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

Bridgit Mendler

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I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

Alison Brie

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After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

Persis Khambatta

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