Ian Doescher Quotes
Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.Ian Doescher
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul -
The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
Olivia Culpo -
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy -
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
Sam Shepard
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg -
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten -
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
A. R. Rahman -
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A. S. Byatt -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
Ed Harris -
What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.
Jay Weatherill -
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
Paul Auster -
As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
Paul Feig -
Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.
Ian Doescher