Elliott Colla Quotes
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
Elliott Colla
Quotes to Explore
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
Patrick Kane
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
Sammi Hanratty
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
Paloma Faith
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
Orhan Pamuk
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You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Patricia Heaton
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
Olivia Williams
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The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
Jeff Bingaman
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
Ian Caldwell
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
Maya Angelou
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
Ed Asner
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It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.
Michael Parkinson
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Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
Elliott Colla
