Bram van Velde Quotes
In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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The F-word here is focus.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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As the CEO running my life, running Meghan Trainor, I have to say 'no' to things all the time, and it's been very uncomfortable and very difficult. I've said 'no' and it's actually worked - even when I never thought it would work.
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In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
