Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.
