Karen Salmansohn Quotes

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

Karen Salmansohn

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DayYourselfThoughtsNegativeThink

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

Jessie Mueller

WorkBusinessBe KindTrustYourself

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

Jerry Lawler

BusinessMindDoingYouNeedSame

Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

Jenna Wortham

HistoryAmericaLongLateDragTill

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

Meg Wolitzer

WorkThinkYouFastNewKind

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

John Madden

WorkEducationSpecialLikeKids

I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

Sridevi

PurposeFeelOwnCharmFilmMade

Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

GreatSaidWorstWhoHeRegards

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Rosa Parks

LifeLivePersonOthersMustModel

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Lonnie Donegan

MusicSingingThoughtAmericanFolk

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

Loretta Lynn

TimeBestControlFeelCareerSay

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Joyce Carol Oates

MorningStyleBeginningConsistency

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Jonathan Frid

WorkAttentionYouFameWantGet

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