Cynthia Voigt Quotes
I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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On a normal day, I crawl out of bed before 8 A.M., have a protein shake, chuck my gym kit on, and go for a class or personal-training session. When I'm back, I'll have poached eggs with salmon or spinach for breakfast before my stylists arrive to do my hair - which takes ages. I then go wherever I am needed.
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I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
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If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
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I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
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I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
