Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
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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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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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No two wars are identical.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.
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American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.
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There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
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The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
