Ernest Hemingway Quotes

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway

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• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Fight

• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

  

  Jack Black
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Movies

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Makeup
  • Saws

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Night
  • Period

• I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Producers
  • Bangs
  • Bucks

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• I want to be funny. When I first started writing, I didn't find my stories funny, but people kept saying they were. It kind of worried me; these are some pretty disturbing and sad pieces. Why do people think they're funny?

  

  Deb Olin Unferth
  • Stories
  • Saying
  • Started

• It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Music
  • Expectations
  • Improvisation

• Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Forever
  • Knows
  • Saying Goodbye

• You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Knows
  • Stuff
  • Wells