Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.
Gillian Flynn
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.
Jim O'Heir
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I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.
Jennifer Egan
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I didn't want to be known for punching out movie stars.
Robert Maillet
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.
Trombone Shorty
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Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
Dean Smith
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I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas
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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
William J. H. Boetcker
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
William Hazlitt
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A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Pauline Kael
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I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way. I feel like there's this great fullness to being alone, and writing is a really vivid way and a really magical way of being alone.
Sheila Heti
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