William T. Vollmann Quotes

Once you've finished typing and moving text around and everything else, you have to leave it alone for a while. You do that to see if it stands up, to see if all the loose edges have been trimmed, if it makes sense, if it's consistent, what shape it really has. You can't tell that while you're working on it.

William T. Vollmann

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AloneMovingYouEverythingSeeUp

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Jessica Raine

MeFeelDoingYouProfessionalKnow

If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

Jenson Button

SonResponsibilityWillFollowOut

To any CEO who's skeptical at all, you have to create a social enterprise today; you have to be totally connected with everyone who touches your brand.

Angela Ahrendts

TodayBrandYouCreateConnected

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

Steve Burns

ChildrenParentsWantWatchingNeed

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

Stephanie Zimbalist

WomanManNeverGoingBehind

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Lord Byron

FutureAlwaysAnythingBeingUs

Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

Chelsea Handler

ParentsWishFallSeeingRoughYour

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!

Christine Pelosi

MistakesManBaseballTeamNeed

In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

Christy Turlington

WomenLaborSideDeliveryPercent

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

PoetOnlyPlayerEnvies

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

Sylvia Plath

LearningMotherBeachMeGreenWave

My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.

Sunidhi Chauhan

HeartMeMomRockSheEven

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