William Styron Quotes

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

William Styron

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DayPainWritingFaceWarmHell

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Joan Rivers

GoodWisdomWiseMindThinkAdvice

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

Jesse Plemons

ParentsStartDoingMoviesKind

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

Andrew Solomon

HappinessDepressionWorldThinkYou

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

John Cena

MyselfI AmPeopleMeWantAccept

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.

John Oates

TimeMomentYouDoneNeedWhatever

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Amos Lee

LoveMusicPeopleCareProcessYou

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Sitting Bull

LoveMindEnoughSoilPossessions

Conservatism as a formal political doctrine didn't exist in America in 1940. The word 'conservative' was associated primarily with fringe groups - anti-industrial Southern agrarians and the anti-New Deal tycoons who led the Liberty League.

Tom Reiss

PoliticalAmericaLibertyExistDeal

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Roger Penrose

ScienceFunCannotSeparated

When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I've never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.

Louise Erdrich

LearningAgeExperienceLanguageSay

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeGenerationCryFirstWhose

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Debra Messing

CashKeysLipBalmPocketThen

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