![The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-best-literature-is-always-a-take-in-the-musical-sense-there-is-an-implicit.jpg)
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writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing people care
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
writing discipline attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
writing names faces
The God we worship writes his name upon our faces. Roger Babson
loss
Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win. Davis Love
loss situation
What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words. Paula Carico
loss age way
Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances. Joan Anderson
losses maybe top whip
I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head. Dontrelle Willis
loss faces glimpse
Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around. Roger Angell
loss risk gains
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. Walker Percy
loss men gains
What is one man's gain is another's loss. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
loss privacy deals
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. Wesley Snipes
loss people decision
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again. Warren G
perfection soul embodiment
Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance. Hazrat Inayat Khan
perfection promise progress
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. Epictetus
perfection shining done
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs. Emily Carr
perfection kind eiffel-tower
Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable. John Green
perfection unattainable philosopher
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. Ken Goldberg
perfection facts matter
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection Patti Smith
perfection way my-way
I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. Mary J. Blige
perfection
It's all about perfection, isn't it? Keira Knightley
perfection people achievement
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed. Mikhail Gorbachev