Ismail Kadare Quotes

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.

Ismail Kadare

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WorkFreedomServiceWritingYou

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

Jessie Usher

LoveSchoolTalentPeopleKnowArts

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

Jerry Saltz

TimeArtBestMoneyWorldCredit

I really like working with people who believe what they're saying.

Meghan McCain

PeopleSayingBelieveWorkingLike

I've kind of always had this balance between genre and personal dramas. It almost feels like the two help each other. If I was just to make a genre film, maybe it would be hollow and soulless. If I was just to make a personal drama, maybe it would be melodramatic and nobody would ever go see it.

Jeff Nichols

BalanceHelpDramaNobodyPersonal

I always need to keep moving.

Ana de Armas

MovingKeep MovingNeedAlwaysKeep

I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

Roy Halladay

WorkWork HardTryingAttentionHard

That idea of not always being in control of the primitive parts of yourself - the bits that fall in love or the bits that dance or lose the plot or drink too much - and putting that across... that's pop for me. It's playing with all the different colours of the rainbow of life.

Roisin Murphy

LifeLoveDanceYourselfRainbowMe

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

Michele Bachmann

SomeoneLivingWillWayHardCheck

When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.

Molly Crabapple

PeopleYouProfessionalMoreNeed

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Debbi Fields

GoodHappinessBusinessJobJoy

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.

Douglas Brunt

DayWordsBrainWorthYouStop

Not every Muslim is out to get us.

Brian Kilmeade

OutUsGetMuslimEvery

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