Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Playing mother to grown-up kids does not allure me much. I will not feel comfortable. Also, my fans will not like me with grey hair.
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
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We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.
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It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
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Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
