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Rosecrans Baldwin Quotes

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 30, 1977

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Good Hate Value Ideas Book Think

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Father Personality Returning Seem He

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Mother Talent Me Doing Talking Kid

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

Me You Hard Everyone Tell Laughing

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

Townes Van Zandt

Good Myself Nobody Write Songs Even

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

Life Imagination My Own Little Own

I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

Mary Steenburgen

Love Great Horse Person Whole Genre

You must never give up and have faith in yourself.

Never Give Up Faith Yourself You Up

It hurts me to consider anybody questioning my performances.

Lizzie Armitstead

Me Questioning Hurts Anybody

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.

Peace War Me Start Long Say

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.

Respect Admiration Greatest Intend

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Life Music Everyday Everyday Life

Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Dance You Gym Professional Rocks Go

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