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.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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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.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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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.
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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.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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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?
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I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
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The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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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.
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There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
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The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
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That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.
