Gertrude Atherton Quotes
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it's timely and then five minutes later we're on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs also have fluidity that's exciting. You have a lot of real enthusiastic music fans for the most part that are writing sometimes for a large audience, and I think certain blogs have a little too much power over what someone likes or doesn't like.
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If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.
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I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere.
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I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
