Sharon Begley Quotes
The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
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I've been playing music since I was born.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
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I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
