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jealous artist typewriters
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time. Jane Yolen
jealousy winning envy
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracian
jealous joy principles
If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full. Brigham Young
jealousy light torches
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. Edmund Burke
jealousy men envy
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. Aristotle
jealous people rich
People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me. Cristiano Ronaldo
jealous watches comedy
It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it. Amy Poehler
jealous government skills
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing. Alberto Manguel
jealous thinking care
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
world do-the-best
To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy. Ashton Eaton
world-love world western
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them. Azim Premji
world enjoy virtuous
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. Ayn Rand
world
There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn. Brian Tracy
world victim
We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act. Bryant H. McGill
world conflict outside-world
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves. Bryant H. McGill
world morality assumption
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world. Charles Colson
world jazz classical-music
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Jan Garbarek
world body acquisition
Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world. Jared Diamond