"I thought I could never write a proper……" — Tana French
"I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down."
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77 Quotes by Tana French
Tana French has 77 quotes on this site.
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other…
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I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls…
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Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming…
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Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting…
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years…
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my…
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You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every…
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It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real…
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get…
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend…
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More Acting Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
— Victoria Abril
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation…
— Julian Assange
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
— Rowan Atkinson
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
— Kevin Bacon
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
— Kevin Bacon
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