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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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.
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As a military brat, it is always an honor when I meet someone from the Armed Services. It is always nice to hear that often Aliens is played for them before going on a mission. It's nice to know that I was a small part of something that is so important to the people that serve our country.
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I do think brands are like people.
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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
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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.
