Matt Hughes Quotes
Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.Matt Hughes
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster -
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
Xi Jinping -
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule -
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
Park Chan-wook -
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
Queen Latifah
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Felipe VI of Spain -
There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
Patrick Macnee -
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro -
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
Abigail Washburn -
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Vida Blue
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
Fat Joe -
Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
Sabrina Lloyd -
You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
Vera Farmiga -
When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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One of my core values is diversity of everything.
Brad Feld -
If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
Bo Schembechler -
If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
Uday Kotak -
I felt good going to the line. I shot them all the same. I should iced the game. This one's on me.
Eddie Charles Jones -
Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.
Matt Hughes