Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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TryingEasyYouChoiceNeverWrite

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Jim Henson

ArtTheatrePlanningDesignYear

I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.

Jim James

MusicArtSchoolCollegeMeFree

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

John C. Calhoun

TimeConstitutionCompromiseSecurity

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

John Lasseter

GreatBe DifferentStriveAlwaysUp

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Ann Patchett

PeopleWritingBookThinkSelling

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

Michael Carbonaro

DoingMagicI CanEverythingOut

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Roger Moore

LoveTravelYouNeverWithout

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Robert Toombs

TodayHistoryChallengeWorldPride

Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat them every day. Make them special again by cooking them yourself. You won't do it every day, I promise.

Michael Pollan

DayCookingYourselfProblemYou

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

Jose Canseco

LifeExperienceThinkYouPossible

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Diane Ackerman

NatureMoreMiracleOurselvesCrave

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

Phylicia Rashad

WorkSuccessMeLookDoneWill

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