T. S. Eliot Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
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First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
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The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
