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• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Defense

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Battle

• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I'm a terrible procrastinator.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Terrible

• For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Thinking

• That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• It’s never about me. My supporters use me as a mark for themselves to recognize their own form of life: I become their medium. I am always very clear about that.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life

• The Spurs are a great organization.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Organization

• Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Humanity

• The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

  

  Jean Henri Fabre
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Me
  • Feel

• Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

  

  Chai Jing
  • Home
  • Quality
  • Air

• Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Goal

• They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

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