Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.
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The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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I'm just an American dream.
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What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.
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Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.
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The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
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I'd like to be a cross between Bruce Parry and Keith Floyd. Someone with a sense of adventure who truly loves food.
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Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
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When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
