Quotes about american-writer
american-writer bite goes lets respond run runs stories
My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. Ray Bradbury
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. Jonathan Kozol
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Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me? John O'Hara
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. Joyce Maynard
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This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody! Peter Stone
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Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. Paul Gallico
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You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way? Paul Vixie
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It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
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My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.
american-writer business merely
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. Michael Gerber
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
american-writer life means ourselves risky seek worth
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
american-writer break performance recycled shut
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
american-writer audience knowing musical opens surprise
A musical opens and everything is a surprise when the audience comes in. What you have to do is get used to knowing what to do - and do it quickly.
american-writer cut major mini priority small time ultimate
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. Denis Waitley
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Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
american-writer art censor good performance piece since
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie
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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
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Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure. Joseph Stefano
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. David Foster Wallace
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland
american-writer friend knows likes man
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
american-writer curtain quality time
Every time a curtain rises, so does the quality of our lives. Bryan Davis
american-writer came hanging precise silence
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. Jean Stafford
american-writer neglected rhetoric simply
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. Michael Harrington
american-writer change characters facing grow seem
What is interesting to me is how the characters respond, how they change and grow by facing what often seem overwhelming difficulties. Terry Brooks
american-writer dare grown
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. Catherine Drinker Bowen
american-writer sharper
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. Washington Irving