Danielle Fishel Quotes
I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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And that's the way it is.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
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When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.
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I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
