Paul S. Kemp Quotes

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Long
  • Catholic
  • Irish

• The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Belief
  • Religions
  • Deity

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Choices

• If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Business
  • Theatre
  • Lawyer

• I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Long
  • Death
  • Fear

• It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Effort

• When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • She
  • Giving
  • Reading

• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Die
  • Laugh

• Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Time
  • Plan
  • Organized

• I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

  

  Brian F. O'Byrne
  • Television
  • Irish
  • Grinning

• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Master

• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Works

• All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Persons
  • Advantage
  • Position

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
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  • Ceilings