Sarah Zettel Quotes

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

Sarah Zettel

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
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• The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Best
  • Parent
  • Search

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Success

• We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Up
  • Long
  • Justice

• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • News

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Tea
  • River
  • Revenge

• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Deep
  • Religion

• I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Good
  • Real
  • Same

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Women
  • Argument
  • Suffrage

• I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  

  Charles Lemert
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  • Ideas
  • Debate

• My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Great
  • Job

• If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

  

  Dick Williams
  • World

• Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Great

• Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Easy