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Diane Duane Quotes

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1952

Topics

Doing Try Forty Years Out Things

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

Good Respect Yourself Writing Story

We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.

Lie Sometimes Outside Turn Genes

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Respect Intelligence Brain Face More

The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.

Best Job Blood True Like Making

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

People Wrong Understand Will Talk

Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever looked on an actual red carpet.

Red Me Makeup Fake Better Look

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

Culture Words Practice People Way

If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to another city, then do your best to see it. Because I just think that's the best way to have an interesting life.

Life Work Best Do Your Best City Go

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

Time Yourself You Calendar Going

I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.

Work Good Time Food Good Food Name

My Lord and saviour Jesus Christ does not hate anybody.

Hate Jesus Christ Lord Christ Jesus

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Thomas Haden Church

Movies Milestones Happen Been Did

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