Ernest Gaines Quotes

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

Ernest Gaines

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 15, 1933

Topics

BeginningCountryBoyMoreThings

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Joanna Trollope

LifeExperienceGrowing UpAdvice

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Robert Higgs

GrowthMoneyGovernmentValuePeople

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

Stan Wawrinka

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Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.

Solange Knowles

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As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.

Sidharth Malhotra

New ThingsLimitsPushYouNewTry

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

Lucas Papademos

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I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

Ludacris

TimeWantSameThenTooSame Time

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

Chris Hardwick

LoveSmartPeopleDoingViolence

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Bodhidharma

LanguageBodyRealThingsSenses

I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.

Alice Temperley

TimeVintageMy OwnBuyOwnWear

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

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I am a tough minister.

Piyush Goyal

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