Kim Young-ha Quotes

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Serious

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Step
  • Comfortable

• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Sometimes
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Negative

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Daydreamer

• Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Light
  • Practice
  • Inner Beauty

• I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Remember
  • Having
  • Grammar

• Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Hair

• The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.

  

  Kim Young-ha
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