Melissa Pritchard quotes

“In death, as in sleep, I am all things.”
-- Melissa Pritchard

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“Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.”
-- Melissa Pritchard

Source : "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.

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“A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.”
-- Melissa Pritchard

Source : "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.

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“I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.”
-- Melissa Pritchard

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“All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.”
-- Melissa Pritchard

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“Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.”

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.”

“A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.”

“It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.”

“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”

“On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

“I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.”

Source : Source: www.djbooth.net

“They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.”