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Rose Tremain Quotes

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 2, 1943

Topics

Writing Think Important Something

I really feel like I have the potential - and I'm not even kidding about it - I have the potential to be the best player in the league.

Best Potential Feel Like Even About

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

Freedom Choices You Television Run

Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff is good. But you still need to train and work hard. Like, I didn't go on a honeymoon after we got married; I went to Barcelona and trained for 10 days to get ready for the clay-court season. It's been good, but you still have to put the work in.

Life Work Good Great Work Hard You

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

Good People Singing Would Your Were

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Strong Decisions You Build Turn Own

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

You Film Luxuries Low-Budget

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

Great People Baby Flying Care You

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

Creative Self Mystery Over Act Than

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

Mother Wife I Am First Act Second

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

Happiness Doctor Know Office Share

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

Food Seasons You Connection Values

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Respect Effort Me Unity Energy

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