Quintilian Quotes
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
Quotes to Explore
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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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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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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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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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
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I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
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The reason I love comics is that they DON'T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke those elements in the drawings and writing, and the reader has to create those elements in their own minds.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
