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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

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TimePeopleWritingStartDoingYou

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleFeelReachSillyYouPlace

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

FaithPeopleThinkViewChristian

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

PoetrySocietyDarkPlaceSeparation

There's no way to play it cool when you meet Paul McCartney. You just start sweating; you trip over your words. Everyone kind of reverts back to being a 10-year-old girl. You can't help it. He's one of the only people on planet Earth that everyone knows who he is. Everyone.

Rob Huebel

GirlWordsPeopleCoolStartHelp

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

Mike White

LoveFlowerHateYouJustLove You

There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.

Roy Bennett

PowerSupportPeopleChanceDoubt

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

Mila Kunis

PerfectionSocietyEnvironmentStrive

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Michael Specter

SuccessHistoryMedicalStoryMay

Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

Jason Robert Brown

MeFriendsYouSayMoreAnything

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Dirk Benedict

BookPlayCraftStageFictionVery

I like trying to keep as honest and straightforward of a point of view in our kitchen as possible.

Christina Tosi

KitchenViewTryingPoint Of View

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

Brian McKnight

HateWallsPeopleTryingYouKind

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