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		With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's what you've got and you have to make that work, and there's something incredibly liberating about that because you can't torture yourself. You have to focus on the moment, and you have to embrace every second and opportunity and maximize that, whereas with writing, there's no imperative there. You just amble along.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Mazer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Zevin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Justice 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Kemp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Joyner-Kersee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. R. Rahman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Dunbar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				K. A. Applegate 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Atkinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Levie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madhuri Dixit 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bastian Schweinsteiger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Aveyard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Umberto Eco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natasha Trethewey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yehuda Berg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irene Dunne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		'Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. B. Joshua 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sophocles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is winter in L.A., there is rain in L.A. But there is no rain on 'Entourage.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Emily Ratajkowski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Otto Schily 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dennis Hastert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's what you've got and you have to make that work, and there's something incredibly liberating about that because you can't torture yourself. You have to focus on the moment, and you have to embrace every second and opportunity and maximize that, whereas with writing, there's no imperative there. You just amble along. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Mazer