Deborah Moggach Quotes

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

Deborah Moggach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 28, 1948

Topics

ShoesSchoolWritingStartYouKnow

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

John Baldessari

LifeGodThank GodKeyMy LifeWant

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

BestGovernmentPeoplePaintingDone

The thematically related 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Brokeback Mountain' reinforced the narrative that gays like Mr. Shepard are regularly isolated for cruel and unusual attacks.

Andrew Breitbart

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Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

Melissa de la Cruz

PeopleStartBelieveFamousYou

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Stacey Farber

SchoolYearSameEveryoneUniversity

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Tony Verna

GodPrayerPeopleWayTalkBig

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Silvia Colloca

RedSpeakIgnoreShyHimGuy

While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.

Robin DiAngelo

RacismGroupResourcesIndividual

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.

Lisa Jakub

JobSchoolHappyMeHigh SchoolOut

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

Josh Young

Growing UpGrowingAlwaysUpWere

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

Don Rickles

TodayDayYouTelevisionKnowOver

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

Anthony Bourdain

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