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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
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Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
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I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.
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Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
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[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.
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I'm not putting up with this, she continued. You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done? Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.
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I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death
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I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.
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Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer. I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation, Flynn promised.
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Survivors lived with their mistakes.
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When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.
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Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
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... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.
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You are wise as well as short. I can also break bricks with my bare hands. That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
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What is technology?... It's another god.
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Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.
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You're going to blow his socks off!
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I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.
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Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
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In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
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And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
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