Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Anita Diamant I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jean Giraudoux I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Umberto Eco I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
    Source:  (2011)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
    Source: American Psycho (2014) 302
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer I think and that is all that I am.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Buddy Rich I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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