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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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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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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Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
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And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
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The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
