Elizabeth George Quotes
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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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.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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America is huge.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
