Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Quotes to Explore
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
