M. J. Rose Quotes
I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.
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The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can't do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.
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This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
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I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
