Tana French Quotes

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

Tana French

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeChangeWritingChoicesYou

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

FearLookingThinkingFindWantSee

In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options.

John Hull

TimeBondBlackLongLong TimeSame

Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.

Ann Nocenti

MeVillainYouRiseWayLittle

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Jeffrey Kluger

WorkHopeChildrenAchievementSense

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Ronald Reagan

WorldViolenceEnjoyCreateSpirit

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

Drea De Matteo

BestChildGivingGiving UpUpHis

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Bryan Ferry

ArtPaintingWritingCareerStarted

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

DignityDeservingHonorsThemDoes

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

August Strindberg

LifeCharacterSimpleManViewOnly

If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.

Alice Ripley

MeSongStoryKeyRightSide

One must not trifle with love.

Alfred de Musset

LoveMustTrifle

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

William Temple

BeautyHealthYourselfYouMayStay

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