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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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