- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a tendency to overempathize with people, which gets me into tricky situations. I can get sucked in and feel like I need to get involved, which is sometimes helpful and sometimes not. It's better to have more distance.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in comedy are just gorgeous, just the best human beings. They are naturally interested in other people and in playing something other than themselves.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We've been inundated with their telly recently, and I've never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living there for a bit if I could take a month off. They just seem like upfront, friendly folk.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having started in theatre, for a long time I wanted to be a classical actress. But I've always loved making people laugh - at school, I was quite mischievous, and bit by bit, I found myself working more and more in comedy.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020