Fannie Hurst Quotes
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I love to push myself.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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Love is more than one thing.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
