Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
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Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
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I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
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Don’t succumb. Fight. You are of today, take hold of today, don’t regress, don’t lose yourself, keep a tight grip. Above all, don’t give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.
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The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
