Paul S. Kemp Quotes

I'm a transactional lawyer, which involves a lot of negotiation. If nothing else, that's given me a good eye for human motivation and frequent case studies in peculiar psychological quirks. I think that's served me fairly well as a writer.

Paul S. Kemp

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GoodMeEyeLawyerThinkMotivation

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

Jerry Leiber

MusicTimeBluesHimAweGreatest

I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.

Andrew Benintendi

BestI CanGoOutGoingJust

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

Jean Kerr

BetterNobodyThingsThanDomestic

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Siri Hustvedt

FamilyDayNightSummerNeverFirst

How can you stop writing?

Tony Hillerman

WritingYouStopHow

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

Roberta Flack

GoodBadCountryFickleOurVery

I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.

Matt Bevin

GovernmentI AmThinkSpiritTaxes

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

Mary Hart

TruthPeopleClientsWillProtect

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.

Julia Roberts

WomenBeautifulThinkGroupPeer

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MomentReflectionPreparationStart

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

Bob Beckel

LifeGodLife Is AKnowsAnother

Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

Brie Larson

TimeStressEverythingOutChanging

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