I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.
Judy Blume
Recitation: by Male by Female
I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
John Battelle
ExperienceTransitionLeftWired
My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
Mavis Staples
PositivePurposeYouLiftSpirit
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
Amit Bhatia
GoodAgeTeacherJobCollegeYou
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.
Suki Waterhouse
ParentsMomNameHospitalPlastic
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven Bochco
GoodCommunicationWordsTelevision
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
PowerHateFocusPeopleMeBrain
When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.
Jordan Peele
OpportunityPowerPeopleStartBlack
The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.
Brit Morin
FocusQualityPeopleVoiceApple
I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.
Wolfman Jack
MyselfLookingBackPersonTryOut
I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
SZA
GodPeopleWishKnowWayHard
Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.
Seth Moulton
CompromiseDebateCountryPrinciples
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
Noam Chomsky
PersonProbabilityHighCannotSoon
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