Stevie Smith Quotes
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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I love design.
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Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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Men meet; mountains, never.
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How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?
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Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
