Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
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The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.
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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
