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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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 need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
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Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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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.
