William Zinsser Quotes
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.
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I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
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I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
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It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
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Trump is a really complicated story and a difficult candidate to write about.
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
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Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley
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The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
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My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
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I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
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Writing is thinking on paper.
