Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307
Logan Pearsall Smith
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
Sabrina Bryan
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
Randeep Hooda
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
T. E. Lawrence
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Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.
Brian Setzer
Stray Cats
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I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.
Cristina Henriquez
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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
Seth Godin
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A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.
Kirsten Dunst
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I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.
Avey Tare
Animal Collective
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criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307
Logan Pearsall Smith