Natalie Goldberg Quotes
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I want to be my own person.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.
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One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I am writing a sad story or an angry poem, I am still giving those stories my time and attention.
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The mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things.
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I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.
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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
