Kathleen Grissom Quotes
Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.
Quotes to Explore
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
Katee Sackhoff
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
Felicity Jones
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
Samantha Bee
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Love can never be fully explained.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
Yingluck Shinawatra
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
Sally Pearson
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
Oliver Hardy
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
Mahesh Babu
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez
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No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
Lana Wood
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
Gail Simmons
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J Mascis
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
Candice Swanepoel
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
Ian Williams Battles
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
Karin Slaughter
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
Ioan Gruffudd
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
Ward Churchill
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If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.
Sarah Dessen
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I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
Uma Thurman
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Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.
Kathleen Grissom