Joshua Ferris Quotes

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

Joshua Ferris

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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

John Wooden

ExperienceTalentLittleRatherThan

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Steven Tyler

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I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Sienna Miller

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In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

Simon Cowell

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People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

Min Jin Lee

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Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Jules Laforgue

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Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

Julia Glass

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The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

Lisa Unger

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Who's more important than Diana Ross?

Don Cornelius

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The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

Dennis C. Blair

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I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.

Colin Trevorrow

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You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

Bobby Locke

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