Fannie Hurst Quotes
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.Fannie Hurst
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas -
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
Larry Wilmore -
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
Inbee Park -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
Barbara Demick
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson -
You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
Hal Sparks -
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
Pat Metheny -
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
Frances O'Connor -
Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
Paget Brewster -
You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
Vernon Wells -
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player -
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
David Stern -
I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
Margaret Stohl -
My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
James Franco -
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.
J. E. H. MacDonald -
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
Carter Burwell -
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.
Fannie Hurst