Laura van den Berg Quotes

My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells them is that it's helpful to be willing to sit in a space of uncertainty. There are entire years, especially with novels, where you really don't know where the project is going.

Laura van den Berg

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SpaceMeUncertaintyThinkYouKnow

We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

Joel Salatin

GrowthTimeDayEvery DayGoNew

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Anna Lindh

FinancialAmericaPovertyProsperity

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

Sturgill Simpson

TryingMusicallyServingThanSum

I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

Sugar Ray Leonard

ChangeTodayGreatMistakesI AmMe

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

Tracy Lawrence

BusinessGreatExperiencePeople

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

Roger Moore

EnoughKnowSaidWantTalkShe

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Michael Shanks

ExperienceWalkHappyPossibilities

It seems that we're heading toward the day that films will be released in all platforms simultaneously, albeit with a cost premium to see it at home. But I hope that theater-going doesn't end - I think that watching movies on the big screen with an audience is still the best format and also an important one for society.

Jonathan Mostow

HomeHopeBestDaySocietyThink

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

Jonathan Dee

FeelTalkingYouBadPlaceWant

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

Art Bell

BelieveUnderstandThingsBrainsOur

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Alice Walker

WomenCultureWordsMeBlackNow

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

Wolfgang Ketterle

ConfidenceParentsMeFriendsDone

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