Lisa Gardner Quotes

What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

Lisa Gardner

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When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Jessica Biel

MyselfDayMindWeekYouSunday

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

LearningLiveWisdomKnowledgeMan

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Matthew Perry

PeopleDeepSituationSeriousHumour

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.

Michael Foreman

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I only learn from the people I work with.

Sissy Spacek

WorkPeopleLearnOnly

It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!

Robert Wade

ThinkNewDifficultUpThingsVery

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

Roxane Gay

WordsMatterPositionHowPublic

Every day you live as a Christian, you are accountable to live for Christ.

Monica Johnson

LiveDayChristianYouEvery Day

From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.

Jonathan Knight

BedNothingOrderThingsStayAwake

I'm a trudger.

Debra Granik

PathForwardSurvivalEasyPersonal

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

Deb Caletti

WarRunEatOutBeenWould

At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.

Cornelia Parker

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