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  • Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Louise Erdrich I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Brooke Shields I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Charlie Chaplin I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Marshall Field I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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  • Jean Baudrillard I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Adrienne Rich I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Joyce Cary I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • Steffi Graf I never look back, I look forward.
    Steffi Graf
    German tennis player (1969 - )
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Margaret Thatcher I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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