Olga Broumas Quotes
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.
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Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.
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When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
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Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
