E. B. White Quotes
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
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I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
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My dad is the most humble man on the planet.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
