Adam Clymer Quotes
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
