Pam Tillis Quotes
Well, it's great to have a Sony Records or a BMG or a Warner Brothers pocketbook. Money is a challenge when you're funding your own start-up costs and everything. But I feel like it's doable. You just have to be very careful.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
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Well, it's great to have a Sony Records or a BMG or a Warner Brothers pocketbook. Money is a challenge when you're funding your own start-up costs and everything. But I feel like it's doable. You just have to be very careful.
