Donna Tartt Quotes

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

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RainWaterI AmDetailWritingLeaf

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

Andrea Bocelli

ChildPeopleMeSongTryOpera

My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!

Anna Ewers

BeautyWaterBestDrinkSecretEver

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.

Michael Chabon

HeroFeelI FeelSidekickHowAbout

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Lloyd Alexander

FamilySupportWritingYearsWorking

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Denzel Washington

FaithStruggleNeverClassicReally

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

ThinkImportantKindTryReligions

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Clara Schumann

FearMemoryMePlaySingleConcert

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Alison Krauss

LifeMusicHonestySoulDeepHelp

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

Noel Coward

MeMayGotSomedayJesusSunbeam

In the U.S. - and elsewhere - successful parties need a storyline that voters can relate to, an intelligible plot of some sort, especially now that so many older, formal ideologies have lost force. For proof of this, one has only to look at Margaret Thatcher's career and ideas.

Linda Colley

IdeasLookCareerLostNowNeed

After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

Frans de Waal

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I'm baffled that Mark Greenberg would send an offensive email politicizing the beheading of an American journalist.

Elizabeth Esty

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