Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Done
  • Thank God

• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

  

  Tara Reid
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• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
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  • Mind

• I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
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• Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
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  • Wonderful

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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  • Nothing

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
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  • Long

• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
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  • Hard Work

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
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  • Wait

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
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  • Indecent

• I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

  

  Rachael Taylor
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• At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

  

  Kate Moss
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• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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  • Strong

• When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Work

• I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

  

  P. D. James
  • Music
  • Men
  • Writing

• I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

  

  Bill Flores
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• 'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
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• The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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  • Writing
  • Done