Bret Lott Quotes
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Bret Lott
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
G-Eazy
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
Taylor Swift
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
Eddie Redmayne
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
Karlie Kloss
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
Sam Hunt
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
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I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
Natalie Portman
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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
Abraham Lincoln
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[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.
Betty Comden
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Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
Sam Kean
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It could be something like Scotch Tape, where you just roll it out and stick in on the back of your device and go.
Angela Belcher
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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Bret Lott
