Sarah Pinborough Quotes

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction.

Sarah Pinborough

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I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

Joanna Lumley

LoveGreenDaddyOffMadeCardboard

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

Jessi Klein

LoveLiveTimeFoodPeopleMe

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Ang Lee

DesignSummerGoWayExpensiveFilm

Competition is normal at a big club, but I've never been worried about it.

Stephan El Shaarawy

CompetitionNeverClubNormalBig

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Steven Pinker

OceanMoonFlyTreesInternetFish

There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

Trent Reznor

TimeThinkingPlaceRight TimeKnow

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Tony Kushner

LifeHopeBestLieThinkYou

I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

Tom Odell

GoodMyselfMomentMistakesLooking

Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'

Tom Tancredo

LikeShunOptimists

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

Ron Suskind

DailyYouThingsGetTravelingVery

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Mike Quigley

HealthSchoolViolenceChicagoSaw

Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.

Michelle MacLaren

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