Quotes 181 till 200 of 598.
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I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
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I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910) -
I want my words to survive translation.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
Dandelion Mind -
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
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I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
Middlesex (2003) 217 -
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
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