Lorraine Adams Quotes

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.

Lorraine Adams

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ResearchWritingRealityDoingI Can

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Jimmy Buffett

MindRememberSeeingHolidayI Can

I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

WomenI AmPerformanceStrongLook

To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at all - French was the language of intellectual power and effortless sex appeal.

Michael Dirda

PowerLanguageSexIntellectualBoy

'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.

Steve Carr

GoodOpportunityCityMeLearnPlay

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

Mohsin Hamid

SchoolAmericanValuesCountryPlay

I am not the sort of person who divests myself of everything that came before I came to Australia. I want to take all the knowledge and experiences I gained when I was in England and put it at the service of Australia because I have to bring something to Australia - not just money but myself.

Miriam Margolyes

KnowledgeMyselfServiceMoneyI Am

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Josh Billings

BestFoolWrongWayHimOwn

The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.

Jon Batiste

FamilyPeopleWeekYouFindNew

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Annie Lennox

LifeMotherChildOpportunitiesHurt

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Thomas Fuller

FoolManWiseWise ManTravels

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Rich Lowry

PoliticalAlmostInvolveCampaigns

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

RespectYouKnowExpressionBecause

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