Ernest Hemingway Quotes
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Quotes to Explore
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose. They should be thankful that I wore it out to the purpose I wore it out and that was writing and recording and touring and doing concerts. Everywhere I could possibly do them that I thought I might enjoy them. I thought people might enjoy me.
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On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.
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Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
