Susanna Kearsley Quotes
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground.
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In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.
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All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.
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I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.
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With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
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Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
