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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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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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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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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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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You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy 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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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
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But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
