Farley Mowat Quotes
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
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I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.
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I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.
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Don't focus on what Trump says. Focus on the results of his actions. Stay in your lane and focus on one particular area.
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For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
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I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it's not separated.
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It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.
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Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.
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I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
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Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.
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Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
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We open this review because the dispute surrounding the studies bears directly on important questions about the federally funded work upon which climate studies rely and the quality and transparency of analyses used to support the IPCC assessment process.
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I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
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There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
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You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.
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If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.
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That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.
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I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
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I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.
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Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.
