Lincoln Child Quotes
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
Quotes to Explore
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.
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I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
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For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
