E. B. White Quotes
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
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I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.
