Alan King Quotes
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
Naval Ravikant
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
Malcolm Gladwell
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
Karen Handel
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
Zana Marjanovic
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Said Nursi
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My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
Frances McDormand
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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
Claire Messud
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Believe it or not, I loved my Jheri curl and thought it was beautiful on me. It actually made my hair grow like crazy. What they didn't tell you back then was that once you get the Jheri curl, there's no way of getting rid of it, so when I was over it, I ended up having to cut off all my hair and start all over again.
Kimberly Elise
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To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one’s self the ill will of many.
John Lancaster Spalding
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If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.
Kasey Chambers
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
