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Lynne Truss Quotes

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: May 31, 1955

Topics

Hate People Me Eye Restaurant Talk

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.

Happy Plan President Discussion Been

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

Character Time Story Always Where

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

Shadow Color Black You Create Want

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

Good People Good People Violence

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Mother Music Man Sister Remember

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Hero Curious Will Suspense Happen

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

Live Fun Feedback Acting Nothing

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Women Growing Up Interesting Play Up

When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.

Big Deal Revival Theater Big Deal

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow

Ideas Brain Action Become Never

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

Change Man Perfect Back Go Know

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

Seth MacFarlane

Skin Fox Shots Thick Skin Thick

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