Elaine Equi Quotes

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.

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• God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Bad

• If you can write it, I can be it.

  

  Karen Black
  • You
  • Write
  • I Can

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Know
  • Model
  • Write

• I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Learning

• I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Experience
  • Movies

• I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Better
  • Write
  • I Can

• In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Fact

• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Small
  • Goal

• I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Experience
  • Truth

• For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Alone
  • Style

• They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Song
  • Style
  • Singing

• I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I think they inject stories with color and flavor, providing a tactile experience.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Fashion

• I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Done
  • Past
  • Style

• I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • People
  • Style

• Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Write
  • Research
  • Happen

• Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Expression

• Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Up
  • Character

• It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Write