Tana French Quotes

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

Tana French

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CharacterWorldDoingYouActing

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

John Hall

MusicNew YorkWeekYouPlayNew

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy

FreedomBestProgressRoad

When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

Jean Louisa Kelly

SciencePeopleSingingStartBelieve

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Michael Patrick King

FunPeopleThinkComedyYouBeing

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

Lucy Larcom

WorkNatureBeautyWaitHumanity

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Dominick Dunne

WritingStoryThinkVanityKind

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

Bruce Springsteen

LiveMusicMeEgoEnjoyAttention

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

Alice Cooper

ArtTogetherSchoolCollegeHigh

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Alistair Cooke

LifePeopleGenerosityCuriosityOwn

I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.

Wilson Cruz

HomeMirrorPeopleFaceThinkWant

For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that throughout history. We impact the climate by our activity. How much so is very difficult to determine with respect to our CO2 or carbon footprint, but we obviously do.

Scott Pruitt

HistoryRespectImpactSomeoneSay

A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.

Thomas Bangalter

WillYearsHereCelloStill

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