Siouxsie Sioux Quotes
I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
Warren Spector
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
Tamara Ecclestone
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin
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Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
Rajiv Ouseph
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
Samuel L. Jackson
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees