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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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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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.
