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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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
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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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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
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It's been a few days since I've seen my kids. My hearts racing; I can't wait to hold them. This is just a glimpse into God's heart at Mass.
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When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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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.
