Nell Leyshon Quotes
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
Ramana Maharshi
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
Nathan Myhrvold
About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
Carla Gallo
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry
The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.
James Fenton
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
John Sayles
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
Jay-Z
I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.
Rachel Zoe
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
Chrysippus
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
