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- If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who…
- With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just…
- Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to…
- Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
- Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong