Joseph J. Ellis Quotes
I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
