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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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.
