I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.


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I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE
What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY
I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE
I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE
No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE
Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE
There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO