Homer Hickam Quotes

The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to actually sit down and write. In a lot of cases, the first book you write will not get published. Do not get hung up on that. Start a second book.

Homer Hickam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1943

Topics

BestStartBookLearnYouDown

We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.

Jesse Williams

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Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.

Andrew Benintendi

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This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial crisis; it's anxiety about inequality and about computers replacing jobs.

Robert J. Shiller

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In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Skeet Ulrich

BusinessYouDownLadderRightAway

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

Trent Reznor

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There's no such thing as a part-time 'Buffy' fan; people watch it compulsively.

Tom Lenk

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The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

David Souter

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Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

Claire Foy

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Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Brad Paisley

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The capping of cash transactions will help the banks reduce cash intensity.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

HelpWillCashIntensityReduce

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Anne Lamott

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I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Phyllis Diller

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