Ernest Hemingway Quotes
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.
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I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.
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I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard.
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I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.
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I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
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I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
