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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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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For me, personally, waking up before everyone else in my home allows me to work, respond to emails, or read up on current events without any distractions.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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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.
