Way Quotes
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For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
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There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.
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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
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Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.
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You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.
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If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.
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When you go from one part of the Turkish community to another, it's like you're moving from one century to another. People look at each other in a strange way, as if looking at someone from another planet, rather than trying to understand and open space for them.
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In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
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As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
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There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying “leaning on my own understanding and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God.
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Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
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For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
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I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
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Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.
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Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.
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There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.
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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
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It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
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What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.
