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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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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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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The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.
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I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.
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We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
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The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
