Arthur Slade Quotes
When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
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In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
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When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
