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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Celebrity is very weird.
Javier Bardem -
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp -
I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
Jimmy Fallon -
I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.
Kenya Barris -
I will still carry on changing all the time.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
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