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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Nov 07, 2020
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.
- Good Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interesting - the way she made herself, and the ruthlessness it took, and also the fantasizing that it took.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know any other way to do it than crime.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came to L.A., I was plotting out my career choices as if I actually had a choice. Unless you're Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, impossibly good-looking, or look like a freak, you have to be malleable and open to everything that comes your way because that's what makes it possible to pay your mortgage and eat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020