Natalie Goldberg Quotes
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.Natalie Goldberg
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
Jack Gleeson -
Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
Karolina Kurkova -
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
Caitriona Balfe -
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer -
The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
Washed Out
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
D. B. Sweeney -
The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
Bebe Rexha -
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown -
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E. L. Doctorow -
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben -
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
Iman
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Lars von Trier -
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent -
You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
Larry Holmes -
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
A. R. Rahman -
When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
Orlando Cepeda -
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
Walton Goggins
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
Harriet Walter -
Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
Jack Bruce Cream -
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez -
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes -
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
Natalie Goldberg