Tamora Pierce Quotes

I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

Tamora Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1953

Topics

FatherDreamsRememberGoImage

Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.

Jeremy Scott

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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

Andrew Motion

TimePeopleFeelingsWantRather

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way back to President Coolidge - we have seen paychecks increase, economic growth be ignited, and, actually, more revenues come into the government.

Jeb Hensarling

GrowthTimeGovernmentYouBackTax

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

Stephen J. Cannell

WritingDesignFurniturePersonHim

Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!

Shraddha Kapoor

HateMenMannersWillRealizeTurn

There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.

Trae Young

PeopleMeTalkingBadPlayAlways

There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.

Roger Staubach

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I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

Robin Quivers

GoodFoodFeeling GoodBadFeeling

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

Rosanne Cash

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I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

Don Everly

BrotherWorldThoughtGoFirstPhil

I think my putting could be better, my short game.

Deron Williams

GameThinkBetterShortI Think

My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.

Cory Wells

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