Laura van den Berg Quotes

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story in some ways as like a train window: being able to watch the landscape pass for a certain amount of time. And then your stop arrives, and you have to leave.

Laura van den Berg

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TimeWindowStoryThinkResolution

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

Joe Dante

JobKindEditingSolitary

My parents always made me dress up for church. I really didn't want to.

Amar'e Stoudemire

DressParentsMeChurchWantAlways

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

MusicWordsPoetryDoingYouWant

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Monica Seles

DayYouEvery DayPlayWantTop

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Lord Byron

HypocrisyVirtuePayHomageOnly

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

Janette Turner Hospital

WorkTimeArtWordsMeStart

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

Dimebag Darrell

LoveMusicPeopleLovedBackEarly

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Bow Wow

PositiveMusicSoulNegativeEnergy

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

Anthony Ray Hinton

HellYearsPureLived

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

William R. Alger

SmileGoodSoulStormSunProblem

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

William Hurt

PeopleYouCreateOwnTrackIdea

Four days a week, I do gymming, four days marital arts. Once a week I normally play lawn tennis, and once a week I horseride.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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