C. S. Lewis Quotes
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
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What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
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In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
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One of the reasons I've hesitated to be an actor is you have to do talk shows and interviews. I'm really a private person and not into telling everything about me. Michelle Pfeiffer told me to think of doing publicity as the work and acting as the fun part.
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My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
