Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
Netflix is so amazing because they take chances. They'll take a risk, be edgy, be quirky.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years.
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I think acting is therapeutic for me.
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.
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As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
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I believe that if you regularly make the right choice - and it takes practice; it takes effort - the more you make the right choice, the easier it gets.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.
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Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
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Netflix is so amazing because they take chances. They'll take a risk, be edgy, be quirky.
