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Alice Munro Quotes

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 10, 1931

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Mountain Think Result You Too Much

There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.

Joe Carnahan

You Marketing Possible Try Cast Net

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

Ron Fournier

Friends Remember Find Rise Fast

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

Michio Kaku

Computers Doing Robots Capable Only

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

Michael Nutter

Good Women Men Believe Thinking

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

Molly Ivins

Good Laugh More Us Elected Officials

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Brian Ferneyhough

Nature Success Failure Questioning

Previously, someone would interview me, and if they liked me, it'd be a great story. If they hated me, it'd be a horrible story. I had no way to say anything. Social media changed things for people who didn't have a voice.

Coco Rocha

Great Social Media People Me Story

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

Annie Leibovitz

Life Work Me Think Looks Boring

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

Arthur Kornberg

Job Done DNA Recording Like Message

I am a congenital optimist.

Susan Collins

I Am Optimist Am

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

Shelby Lynne

Pain Know My Own Write Own Your

I'm learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.

Selena Gomez

Learning Beautiful You Look Still