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Tana French Quotes

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Tana French

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1973

Topics

Behavior Belief Human Need System

I have a picture with Obama in my house, and I freak out every time I see it. I'm like, 'What the heck? Did that even happen?' It's like a dream.

Jessica Sanchez

Time Picture House Dream See Out

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

Matthew Heineman

Age Growing Up Guilty Filmmaking Up

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Amity Shlaes

Tax Vote Pay Just Everybody Some

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

Shirley MacLaine

Think Plan Everything Level I Think

I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.

Shonda Rhimes

Admire Her Identify Eleanor Roosevelt

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

Mary Ann Mobley

Church Feel Up I Feel Very About

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Julia Roberts

Good Me Steel Now Pretty Painter

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

Derek Walcott

Discipline Trying Feelings Poem Fit

I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.

Chrissy Teigen

Go Want Always Eat Get Insane

Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.

Cole Sprouse

Character Children Child Attention

It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us.

Chrystia Freeland

Knowledge Intelligence Think Said Us

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Arthur Keith

Nationalism Opposite Been Made Case