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.Gertrude Atherton
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Randee Heller -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
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.
Wanda Sykes -
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.
Uwe Boll -
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun -
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.
Gail Collins
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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.
Galileo Galilei -
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin -
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.
T. J. Miller -
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.
Edmund Phelps -
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
Warren Bennis -
In the end, crime doesn't pay.
Lane Garrison
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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.
Madame de Stael -
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.
Daniel Craig -
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
Karan Johar -
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco -
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
Wendell Willkie -
Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
Kate Middleton
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Jack Levine -
I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan -
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.
Gertrude Atherton