Amanda Hocking Quotes

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

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• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Better

• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • You
  • Phone
  • Phone Call

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Never

• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man

• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Lonely

• Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Reality
  • Star
  • Doors

• Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Fans
  • Will
  • Most

• I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire

• Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Doubt
  • Design

• The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.

  

  Edward Young
  • Deep

• Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.

  

  Anthony Kennedy

• Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • True
  • Free

• I do not believe that people who go on strike in this country have a legitimate cause. Throughout the period of the Labour Government and this one, I have never supported any strikes in this country.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Relationship
  • Marriage
  • December

• I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Men

• I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

  

  Kenneth Langone

• When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • World
  • Home
  • Eyes

• If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

  

  Alice Miller
  • Time
  • Friends

• Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

  

  James Stewart

• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Falsehood

• I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

  

  Amanda Hocking