Adam Hartung Quotes
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
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While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.
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Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.
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…the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one … as one learns, he changes the design …. Management structures also need to be changed as the system changes…
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I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
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We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
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First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.
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United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
