Amanda Hocking Quotes
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.
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There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.
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Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.
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The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
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I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
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People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
