Etta James Quotes
I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
Etta James
Quotes to Explore
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Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.
Joanne Rowling
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy Joel
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
Marge Piercy
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
Carol Leifer
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All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
Simon Sinek
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Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?
Oprah Winfrey
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
H. L. Mencken
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A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
Yehuda Berg
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When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.
Pam Houston
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I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
Etta James
