Emily Susan Rapp Quotes
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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It is my job to step into different characters.
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I'm not much of a joke writer.
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They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
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First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
