Joanna Scott Quotes

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

Joanna Scott

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WordsSpaceWritingDoingTrying

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

Jim Lehrer

HomeworkYouReactListenMatters

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

John Hurt

LiveWalkMeFamousNewNice

We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams.

Masayoshi Son

DreamsIdeasLots

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

Mike Krzyzewski

MomentTeamWinningBetterSituation

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

Michael Tubbs

FatherMeSocietyExpectationsRace

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

Janina Gavankar

CollegeDoingBreadChicagoButter

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

Don Shula

WorkTalentYouPlayTryOut

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Doris Lessing

WorldKindPermanentGoingSure

I've always hated modeling. It's superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls' faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?

Paulina Porizkova

BusinessGirlBeautifulMoneyHate

I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'

Scott Aukerman

WorkWaitRememberYouWriteFirst

The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.

Todd Young

ThinkHouseImportantSuccessful

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Richard Jefferies

AloneLonelinessManMindAttention

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