Valerie Miner Quotes
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
Valerie Miner
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty
A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
Rakul Preet Singh
When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
Larry Hagman
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
Candace Kita
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Hannibal Buress
You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
Carey Mulligan
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
Lance Morrow
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.
Alex Breckenridge
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
Zubin Mehta
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
H. L. Mencken
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
Bill Gates
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
Valerie Miner
