Quotes 3561 till 3580 of 3709.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
Source: A Plea for Eros (2007) 41 -
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.
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Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, Hey... (pantomimes hitting his son) We don't hit. He looked at me like, Here's your sign, Dad.
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
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You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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