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.
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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 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 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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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'
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Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.
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If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
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Our work is really about taking the best of what is in a place and working that into a project. We'd like to take your vision and goals and weave that into all the bricks and mortar and steel and glass put together, along with all the functional things that we need to make the airport work better.
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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.
