Quotes about american-writer
american-writer deeply high people schools segregated textbooks
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. Jonathan Kozol
american-writer
It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. Joyce Maynard
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He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. Jean Stafford
american-writer angel looked slice
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler
american-writer hear quite realized
I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.
american-writer deprived eats inward knowledge woman worse
I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.
american-writer sharper
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. Washington Irving
american-writer holding scholars-and-scholarship
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara de Angelis
american-writer dictionary knowing law says word
And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. David Jones
american-writer good songs stuck time
And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
american-writer difference good mere performance pieces theater
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
american-writer animals bigger brain men reasoning
All men are reasoning animals more than any other animal. They have a bigger brain and better brain. And we reason with our brain. Rex Stout
american-writer freelance holding office sent work
Once I got out of school, I sent my clippings around and nabbed some freelance writing work while holding down full-time office jobs. Michael Musto
american-writer fascinated shut
Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do. Roger Angell
american-writer happened reminds
That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a yardbird. Jean Shepherd
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That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.
american-writer fresh pieces rest seemed time
The rest were just pieces I liked, pieces that seemed fresh to me when I went back to them, sometimes for the first time in a long time.
american-writer country expect far good nourishing
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Larry McMurtry
american-writer brings projects
One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
american-writer arthur cane heroes played shield trash
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. Lloyd Alexander
american-writer buy
You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Mitch Albom
american-writer art censor good performance piece since
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
american-writer audience knowing musical opens surprise
A musical opens and everything is a surprise when the audience comes in. What you have to do is get used to knowing what to do - and do it quickly. Peter Stone
american-writer cut major mini priority small time ultimate
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. Denis Waitley
american-writer detailed goals learn moment motivational time
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
american-writer good hand holding life playing poor success
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
american-writer dwell energies finding focus forward moving spend toward
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
american-writer home
For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
american-writer love
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen. Marge Piercy
american-writer aspects attitudes change changing generation human inner outer revolution
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. Marilyn Ferguson
american-writer deeply fear ultimately
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
american-writer character complain control fool self takes understanding
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie
american-writer came hanging precise silence
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.