Donna Tartt Quotes

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Donna Tartt

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For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

Jim Lovell

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If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

Andrew Solomon

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I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

Jeb Bush

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My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

Steve Cropper

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That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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When I met Julia Roberts, the only thing that came out my mouth was, 'Thank you.'

Suki Waterhouse

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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Ron Perlman

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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Michael Morpurgo

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I was affectionately known as Bird Legs during high school.

Mitt Romney

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It's very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with inequality, to tell them inequality is not important and that markets are always efficient. They'd think you're crazy.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Dorothy Kilgallen

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'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.

Chris Cornell

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