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A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.

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• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Unexpected

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Success
  • Democracy

• We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Period
  • Sun

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Knowledge
  • Innocence

• If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Just

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Sex
  • Same

• I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • God
  • Nature

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • People
  • God
  • Money

• I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Right

• I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

  

  George Will
  • Baseball
  • Habit
  • Century

• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Body
  • Certain
  • Able

• I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

  

  Adam Silvera
  • Grief
  • Fiction
  • Written

• I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Writing
  • Read
  • Fiction

• A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.

  

  Callimachus
  • Fiction
  • Plausible
  • Should Be