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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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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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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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.
