Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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I would never walk off any show.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
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First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
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Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
