David Starkey Quotes

Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

David Starkey

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• Embrace
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• Crafts
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• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Justice

• I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

  

  Raekwon
  • Different
  • Artist
  • Totally

• I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Chaos
  • Well
  • Dishwasher

• Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Race
  • Square
  • Times Square

• I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Office
  • Go
  • Come And Go

• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Understand
  • Say
  • Wants

• Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

  

  Larry King
  • Day
  • Sports
  • Everyday

• If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Remember

• Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Value

• George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Work
  • Money
  • Together

• I'm so proud of my girl Kehlani. She and SZA are killing it.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • She
  • Girl
  • Proud

• When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Stop
  • Moving

• All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Brain

• When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Mistake

• Writing a poem is discovering.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • Poem
  • Discovering

• In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

  

  John N. Mitchell
  • Important
  • Mind

• Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

  

  John Muir
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

  

  David Starkey
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Embrace