Betty Sue Flowers Quotes
So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.
