Paper Quotes
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Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
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Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
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The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
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I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.
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I have never supported white supremacism but I read this this description of me in the papers.
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Writing is thinking on paper.
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You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.
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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
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There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.
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It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.
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The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
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Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
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My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.
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I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.
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I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
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I followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.
