Quotes 261 till 280 of 542.
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Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
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Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.
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Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.
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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
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