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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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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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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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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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 don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
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As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.
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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
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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.
