Eleanor Clark Quotes

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

Eleanor Clark

• Writing
• Trouble
• Excitement
• Displacement
• Enlargement

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
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• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Writing
  • Grandma
  • Visiting

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
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• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
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• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
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• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
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• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
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  • May

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Job
  • Funny
  • Hair

• I love 70's music.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Life is our dictionary.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
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• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
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• A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Health
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • World
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  • Done

• I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ – radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ – what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • Men
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  • Party

• Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Faith

• I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first started with the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Those people that really pioneered are heroes of mine.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Church
  • Heroes
  • Christian Music

• But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Believe
  • Trouble
  • March

• I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Excitement