Ishmael Reed Quotes
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul -
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
Natalie Goldberg -
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
Rachel Kushner -
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Oscar Wilde -
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
Oscar Wilde -
I can't be anybody but myself.
William Hung
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If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.
Eddie Guerrero -
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather -
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin -
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka -
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
Barbara Walters
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Oscar Wilde -
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
William Sloane Coffin -
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
Sherman Alexie -
We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.
Ishmael Reed