Tananarive Due Quotes

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

Tananarive Due

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1966

Topics

GreatPeopleYouJournalismTurnUp

I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we've already gained.

Jim Brown

AmericanCountryCitizenWantWill

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

Jeffrey Thomas

ExpectationsYouLeaveBeginnings

The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.

Stephen Gaghan

BusinessMeInternetInterestingYou

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

St. Vincent

GuitarKindAlwaysPlayingStarted

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

Sonia Sotomayor

PositiveWorkSuccessMarriageBook

I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.

RM

WritingLovedWriteRapperHighRap

It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan.

Rupert Friend

ActionAmericanPlanLookMapGet

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

Lucy Deakins

PersonShyDaysShy PersonPainfully

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

Diplo

MusicI CanRockClassicOldSee

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

Christie Hefner

FatherChildrenComfortableAdultHe

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

Brantley Gilbert

LiveSameUpWhereStillTown

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

Arne Jacobsen

PeopleCareChairBuyWhoReally

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