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Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

Aleksandar Hemon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: bosniak
Birth: September 9, 1964

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Time Best Book Better You Worst

The Homburg makes a man look prosperous.

Roger Stone

Man Look Prosperous Makes

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Robyn Davidson

Best Walk Road Free Back Original

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Martin Scorsese

Money Support Rest Think Wish Days

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Monica Bellucci

Strong You Silent Understand See

Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.

Donna Langley

Good Women Job Doing Enough Early

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arthur Helps

Confidence Self Achieve Labor Task

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

History Training Ideas Degree Writer

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

Rich Enough Poor Content

These are the kinds of names that Zimbabweans like: names that have positive qualities. Like, Praise is a very popular name; Loveness is a very popular name.

Petina Gappah

Positive Name Praise Names Kinds

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Thomas Peterffy

Past People Learn Seems Like

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

Tim O'Brien

Lie Random Better Person More Than

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Richard Armitage

Government Security Flexibility