Rebecca Serle Quotes
Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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I'm not a very typical singer.
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
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We are in the process of building a new patient tower, which should open in 2007 and will add 100 new staffed beds.
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Just make people better at something they want to be better at.
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I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. And it was an important issue to me, personally. And the whole question of when - when do you put the camera down or when do you keep shooting to get the shot. And a number of times in my life I've had that question hit me very hard.
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Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text.
