Quintilian Quotes
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
Quintilian
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
Vanilla Ice
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
Narendra Modi
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
Larry Wilmore
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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
Elie Wiesel
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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will 'talk sense to the American people'. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.
John F. Kennedy
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I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.
Studs Terkel
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Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
Jane Lindskold
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I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
Jennifer Egan
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
Quintilian
