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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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
Nancy Pelosi
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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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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
Ted Danson
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
Viggo Mortensen
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I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
Vicente Fox
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I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
Charles R. Swindoll
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The great thing about interning at 'Teen Vogue' is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
Emily Weiss
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It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
Jeff Nichols
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I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
Scott Haze
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. Chidambaram
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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
Brett Young
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.
Lily King
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser
