James Whitcomb Riley Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I don't have many friends.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.
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When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.
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I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?
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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
