- Nov 07, 2020
Go Quotes
Quotes on moving forward.
These quotes are about pushing something forward - a producer's refusal to let a project go, and the long chain of approvals a show has to go through before it airs. Related reading includes Back Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
- Good Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020