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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I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.
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You guys should know we do [ cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism] because you watch CNN all day long.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
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If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.
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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.
