Darcey Steinke Quotes

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

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• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Army

• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Long
  • Famous

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Party
  • Wisdom

• In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
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  • American
  • Focus

• I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Reality

• Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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  • Character
  • Me

• There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.

  

  Brian Austin Green
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  • Long
  • May

• A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Comedy

• I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Marriage

• Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

  

  John Galliano
  • Men

• When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

  

  Darcey Steinke
  • Long
  • Writing