Belinda Johnson Quotes
I'm thankful to be in a position in my career where I can advocate for better policies and partner with future generations, like my daughters, to be a voice for change.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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I still keep my accent.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.
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A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.
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I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
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I'm thankful to be in a position in my career where I can advocate for better policies and partner with future generations, like my daughters, to be a voice for change.
