Letitia Wright Quotes
I don't really consider myself religious. I view it more as a relationship. And if anyone thinks that's weird, then okay.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.
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Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
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I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
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You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.
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I don't really consider myself religious. I view it more as a relationship. And if anyone thinks that's weird, then okay.
