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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I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
Matt Dillon
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All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
Charles Hazlewood
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
Eddie Murphy
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I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.
Marshawn Lynch
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?
Carole Maso
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser
