William Zinsser Quotes
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
Wendell Berry
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
Laura Hillenbrand
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
Nathan Fillion
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
Malcolm Boyd
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.
Tadashi Yanai
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou
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You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.
Edgardo Osorio
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What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
James F. Byrnes
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We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.
Ian Stannard
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
Tea Obreht
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser
