Jincy Willett Quotes
Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.
