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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Vanity

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Day
  • Cancer

• 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.

  

  Karrine Steffans
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  • Great
  • Know

• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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  • Mad
  • Players

• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Writing
  • Wise
  • Riches

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Talented
  • Too

• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
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  • Song
  • New

• 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.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
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  • Age
  • Interesting

• 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?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
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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.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Washington Irving
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  • Hope
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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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.

  

  Victoria Justice
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  • Happy
  • Relationship

• Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Kids
  • College
  • Accept

• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  

  Ted Strickland
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  • Great
  • Country

• I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

  

  Don McCullin
  • People
  • Good
  • Lost

• I think I'm in the service business. I mean, our sandwiches are pretty good; I don't know if they're extraordinary. But our service is.

  

  Jimmy John Liautaud
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  • Business
  • Pretty

• To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Cool

• That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.

  

  Johan Santana
  • Time
  • Long

• Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

  

  Jean Craighead George
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