#ten

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#character #come #i #more #most

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#audience #conferences #conventions #field #fights

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#children #fascinating #hasn #i #i think

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#artists #compromise #daily #daily life #defeated

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#going #intense #like #more #much

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell. ↗

— Ben Harper

#best #cause #deeds #extension #far

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#because #characters #hardest #knowledge #live

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten. ↗

— Pamela Harriman

#bad #forgotten #i #me #rather

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them. ↗

— Julie Harris

#around #bit #both #clothes #ladies

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. ↗

— Katherine Harris

#after #al #al gore #allowed #any