William Strunk, Jr. Quotes
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.
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I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
