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Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
- Chronology
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
- Nov 07, 2020
My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the way Indian weddings are hosted. We have kept everything traditional - except our engagement ceremony.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.
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- Nov 07, 2020