Jodi Picoult Quotes

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

Jodi Picoult

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YourselfYouKnowWillNeverFix

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Bruner

WorkLazinessLeapThinkerGuessing

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jennifer Egan

TechnologyFeelSomeoneYoungNow

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Jeremy Davies

ExperienceSchoolActingBecomeTurn

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

John Hume

SeekConfrontationDidIdeological

I am 25 years old, have been the captain of Inter for three years, and I am part of club history with my goals.

Mauro Icardi

GoalsHistoryI AmThreeCaptain

I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.

Stephen Furst

GoodBeachSchoolMeHigh School

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desperate for it.

Stephen Merchant

GoodAgeOpportunityFunThinkName

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Mary Steenburgen

PeopleMeActingWayMoreAct

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.

Johnny Weir

GoodMusicI AmFunEnjoyIce

In the long run, competition makes us better... it drives innovation.

Dennis Muilenburg

InnovationCompetitionBetterLong

I've sung in the shower for years.

Chris Pine

YearsShowerSung

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Colin Quinn

FunnyGoodPeopleThinkFeelYou

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