Gail Godwin Quotes

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

  

  Harold Bloom
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  • You
  • Learned

• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Washington

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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  • Love
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• It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
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  • Work
  • Done

• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

  Warren Spector
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  • Idea
  • Disney

• I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

  

  Warren Christie
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  • Best
  • See

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
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  • Better

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
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  • Love
  • Songs

• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
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  • Business
  • Think

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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  • Writing
  • Book

• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
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  • Think
  • Company

• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
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• My father is with me every day. Although he passed away in 2003, he continues to live on inside me and through me - at home and work, on crowded subway cars and busy sidewalks.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Work
  • Live
  • Home

• A creative man is achieved by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to defeat others.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Achieve

• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

  

  Plato
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  • Good Men

• Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

  

  Euell Gibbons
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• Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

  

  Gail Godwin
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