Quotes 301 till 320 of 1038.
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I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
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I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists - there's no room for democracy in making film.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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I have read your book and much like it.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
Source: 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
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