“Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.” WritingFirstsMeanProblemBigsYoungAdvicePersonalityBeing TrueTemperAcademyPretentiousBig ProblemsFortressesYoung Writers Author:Gary Shteyngart
“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.” YearsFirstsStillsHelpingShowsLinesActingFourAdviceTvsTenToughHollywoodCoachingTv ShowsMovie Sets Author:Michael Pena
“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.” FirstsWantedSongGirlWishKnownAdviceSkinsLike MeObsessedThickThick Skin Author:Kate Voegele
“The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.” WritingFirstsBigsFictionAdviceImpactScience FictionWriting AdviceBig ImpactRobert Heinlein Author:George R. R. Martin
“My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.” IfsThinkingMenFirstsWould BeTogetherAmericaHumanityPassionLostJusticeAdviceMankindHe ManIdealsHatredSorryJealousDividesCampsUnitsUrgentI Am SorryAm Sorry Author:Woodrow Wilson
“My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.” FirstsWould BeAgeGrowsAdviceAncestorIce Age Author:Bertrand Russell
“When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.” FirstsLosesAdviceWeightAgentsLose Weight Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.” GivingFirstsLawAdvice Author:Paul Dickson
“Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.” FirstsLongAcceptingGraceAdviceInterfereGood Advice Author:Gene Brown