Pearl Cleage Quotes
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
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If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
