Ernest Gaines Quotes
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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I'm a normal guy.
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The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
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Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?
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My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
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When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.
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I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
