Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1326.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
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Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
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Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
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Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
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