Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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quotistI had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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