Sara Sheridan Quotes
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.
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I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
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Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.