I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
Hilary Mantel
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In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.
Maria Bamford
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The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn't stand out.
Roger Deakins
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Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
Maajid Nawaz
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The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
Clara Zetkin
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Marian Wright Edelman
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When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.
Bryce Harper
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I'm grateful to the creative allies behind 'UnReal' who are willing to stand behind disenfranchised communities of people worldwide and help to tell their stories.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.
Ben E. King
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I couldn't stand it. It was what I thought I always wanted. I was there every day in the trenches, and I hated everything about that job. But what I loved - and what I got from 'The Tooth Fairy' - was to see how studio movies were released.
Jason Blum
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One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.
Pete Hamill
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry Kissinger
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I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Jim Gilmore
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A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
Marco Brambilla
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It feels otherworldly to wear heels and makeup. Why fit in when you can stand out?
Ritika Singh
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I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.
Maggie Grace
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In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
Chuck Schumer
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I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of them. We got a standing ovation from people who couldn't stand.
Martin Landau
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Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.
Billy Graham
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I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
Zara Larsson
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That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.
Jay DeMarcus
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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
Paul Wellstone
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