Quotes 481 till 500 of 542.
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What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
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What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
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Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks?
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
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When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) 615 -
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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