Antony Johnston Quotes
There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I don't do meetings.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.
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As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
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There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.
