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Claire Scovell LaZebnik Quotes

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

Topics

Stars Grow Famous You Write Kid

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

Jim Harrison

Myself Day Job Seriously Taking

We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.

Joe Russo

Film Make Sometime Again Smaller

If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.

Joe Torre

Losing Me Winning Attention You Why

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Diamonds Places Where Polished

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.

Torrey DeVitto

Passion Step Africa Take Going Able

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.

Robert Wilson

Man Dinner Writing Book Cold Face

It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most.

Rumaan Alam

Family True Matter Others Us Made

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

Louis Stokes

Purpose People Facts American Them

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Jonathan Sacks

Good Not Perfect Wealth Perfect Very

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

Dorothy Dunnett

Father Mother Game Chess Always Met

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

David Yates

World Big Bounce Fantastic Between

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Christian Scott

Music Musicians Stretch Make Younger