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.
E. B. White
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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.
Bayard Rustin
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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.
Victor Hugo
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann
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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.
Walter Bagehot
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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.
Lady Gaga
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I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.
Chantal Sutherland
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
Tony Kushner
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I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
David Johansen
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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
Louis Leakey
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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.
E. B. White
