- People
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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
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could see it wasn't going to be easy. I couldn't give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
- Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut them in two, down the middle. They're lighter, thinner, skinnier that way. And because I'm cheap, I get two scarves for the price of one.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you contribute to food banks or give money that goes to having meals delivered, you're meeting the most basic need. It's such a direct way to help.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.
- Nov 07, 2020
All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020