Jean Craighead George Quotes
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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Nobody is all good or all bad.
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The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/
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For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.
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Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
