Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
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I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?
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D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.
