Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking -
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.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer
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I don't believe in miracles.
Sam Simon -
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
Walter Russell Mead -
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes -
I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
Edan Lepucki -
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger -
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
Olivia Wilde -
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang -
If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
Vidal Sassoon -
I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
J. D. Pardo -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim -
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
Aaron Neville
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
Sam Walton -
Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
Jack Gilbert -
In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
Allen Iverson -
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher