Anne Clark Quotes
Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
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I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.
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These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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I love this idea of expanding the game universe. It has been limited. I guess probably because the genre was so successful, and the people who were creating those games made so much money at it they just had no desire to sort of open it up.
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Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
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Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.
