Susan Orlean Quotes
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.
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Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.
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No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
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I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
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You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
