Jane Rule Quotes
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'
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I have always given money away. I haven't always been wealthy - the opposite, in fact. But I have always felt that I wanted people to share it with me.
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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
