Paper Quotes
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
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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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To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term 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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You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
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I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
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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.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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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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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
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Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
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Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
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I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.
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Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
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Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
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This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
