William Morris Hunt Quotes
Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.
Quotes to Explore
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Hope will break your heart all over again.
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When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.
