Zooey Deschanel Quotes
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
Zooey Deschanel
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
Katee Sackhoff
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
Bat for Lashes
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
Carine Roitfeld
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
Kate Christensen
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
Kapil Dev
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
Olga Fonda
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Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.
Jennifer McMahon
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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
John G. Diefenbaker
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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
Waris Ahluwalia
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The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.
M. J. Rose
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.
Stephen Dunn
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
Zooey Deschanel
