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 grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.
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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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Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
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Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.
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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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It's impossible for five people to have the exact same ambitions all around.
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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
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Writing is thinking on paper.
