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.
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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.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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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.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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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.
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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.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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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.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
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One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.
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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.
