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“One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.”

Knows Done Forever Goes On Pages Prose Revising

“I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.”

People Knows Needs Writing Kind Order Broken Goes On

Author:John Green

“It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."”

Knows World Heart Persons Important Enough Character Guy Goes On Reader Ambition Okay Scales This Guy

Author:Don Winslow

“I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.”

People Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Moments Life Is Next Realizing Chance Goes On Sitting First Time Meetings Everyday Stranger Get Up Cafes Chance Meeting

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“[On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.”

Knows Enough Moments Shows Goes On Silent Burden Heavy Beast Drivers Resentment Camels

Book:The Gobi Desert

Source: The Gobi Desert

“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.”

Thinking Knows World Trying Sometimes Stories Reality Seems Moving Term Quality Taken Goes On Mood Discovering

Author:Brian Evenson

“Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.”

People Knows Want Feels Play Happens Roles Know How Wonderful Week Goes On Eating Married Asking Dinner Favourite Negotiation Food Love Happily Married Favourite Things

Author:Nora Ephron

“I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Littles Ideas Careers Crazy Goes On Assuming Hearing Video Little Things Judged Know Me Here And There Being Crazy Careers And Life

Author:Nicki Minaj

“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”

Knows Men World Needs Stills Young Fall Talking Power Land Dying Goes On Roots Weight Miles Old Man New World Flags Falling Down Sentimentality Preconceptions Venomous Flailing

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.”

Knows Shows Reality Values Names Lost Week Tvs Goes On Six Tv Shows Reality Tv

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.”

Ifs Knows Giving Jobs Goes On Ambition Give Me Towns Journalism Enterprise Editors Kentucky

Author:Maxine Cheshire

“But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.”

Thinking Knows World Trying Might Voice Justice Rights Goes On Calling Moon Elusive Moths Beckoning

Author:N. T. Wright

“Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.”

People Thinking Knows Shows Talking Listening Goes On Sells Radio Driving Serving Brutal Controversy Boston Jerk Sponsors Talk Radio

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.”

Knows Years Dream Rooms Wonderful Goes On Clothes Picks Hollywood Dressings Dressing Rooms Wonderful Places

Author:Larry Hagman

“I live in a bubble. I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because, well I guess I'm afraid to.”

People Knows Wells Goes On Internet Bubbles Blogs

Author:Ron Perlman

“You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Looks Matter Hard Able Acting Masters Goes On Stealing Crafts Look Up Circus Wayne Mimicking

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Book Whole Journey Goes On Memoir Genre Trash Very Popular Want To Travel Popular Book

Author:Hilary Liftin

“You know, we can't keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil, and the need to deal with global warming, and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God's creation, and just let business as usual go on. And that means something has to be taken away from some people.”

People Knows Needs Mean Challenges Deals Talking Taken Creation Goes On Climate Oil Global Warming Usual Dependence God's Creation Keep Talking Foreign Oil

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Hands Stars Sides Goes On Grateful Pops Reluctant Had Enough Life Goes On Pop Stars

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.”

Knows Firsts Stage Cry Materials Goes On Letters Dear Fishes Comedian Odd Guts Dear John

Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

“I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Littles Used Bits Five Four Information Goes On Little Bit Investment Used To Be First Date

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."”

Thinking Knows Stage Goes On Okay Scared Frightened

Author:Yoko Ono

“The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.”

Knows May Purpose Left Know How Goes On Tired Vacation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.”

Knows Way Needs Giving Feels May Hard Moments Might Force Wish Accepting Talent Goes On Limits Parenthood New Ways Time Goes On

Author:Fred Rogers

“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.”

“I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.”

Knows Jobs Waiting My Own Goes On Phones

Author:Grace Zabriskie

“Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.”

People Knows Order Deals Records Fans Fronts Goes On Beats Singing Labels Idols Contests American Idol

Author:Jake Owen

“I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.”

Knows Trying Looks Long Seems Might Past Joy Values Know How Strange Goes On Tomorrow Tales Fairy Each Day Fairy Tale Hearsay

Author:Kent Haruf

“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.”

People Knows Seems Answers Knowledge Heard Ignorance Goes On Offers Ignorant Instance Worldly Seeming Advisable

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.”

Knows Men Want Trying Real Done Women Trouble Theory Type Goes On Patterns Idealism Hysterical

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes on responding in thousands of ways. You give a little love and from everywhere love starts flowing. The man of compassion is not trying to snatch anything away, he is not greedy. He does not wait for the return, he goes on giving. He goes on getting too, but that is not in his mind.”

Knows Men Way Giving Trying Mind Littles Doe Feelings Waiting Existence Compassion He Man Goes On Return Greedy Giver Responding Little Love

Author:Rajneesh

“as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.”

Knows Years Seems Virtue Events Danger Goes On Patience Rushing Ripeness

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.”

Ifs Knows Men World Know How Goes On Vices Vicious Acid Frailty

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Wells Littles Artist Names Goes On Responsible Blame Greed Starting Petty

Author:Tom Petty

“You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.”

Knows Needs Care Water Realizing Cutting Air Tree Goes On Waste Commitment Concern Environmental Take Care Atmosphere Poison Bus Pollution Alliances Commitment To God Rubbish Air And Water

Author:Oscar Romero

“When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time.”

People Knows Littles Long Stills House Groups Goes On Long Time Boat Vacation Little Time Group Of Friends

Author:Giorgio Armani

“I made a joke with my sister... I said, "I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security." There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.”

Knows Two Jobs Opportunity Security Months Goes On Endless Commit Manage Compromise Insecurity Nerves Schedules Two Months

Author:Juliette Lewis

“There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.”

Knows Men World Stills Facts Helping Suffering Feminism Goes On Equal Helping Each Other

Author:Yoko Ono

“Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Trying Long Sometimes Stories Film Fun Watches Mystery Goes On Scene Murder Suspense Paranoia Murder Mysteries

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.”

People Thinking Knows World Stories Would Be Girl Perfect Goes On Informative Indictment

Author:Julian Schnabel

“After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Mind Firsts Kind Facts Inspiration Waiting Process Novel Goes On Development Paper Tasks Details Recognition Gentle Shock

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.”

Knows Years Mind Might Happens Today Plans Crazy Goes On Tomorrow Eating Okay Assuming Work Out Fifty Department Sixty Sooner Or Later Monkeys Worms Going To Work

Author:Stephen King

“When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.”

Knows Persons Used Guy Names Gone Havens Goes On Projects Pages Used To Be Cousin Wikipedia My Cousin

Author:Demetri Martin

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful.”

People Knows Hard Feelings Goes On Terrible Careful Guts Burned Sad Things Gut Feelings

Author:Joan Jett

“The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.”

People Knows Important Remember Moving Goes On Dignity Management Meetings Details Reputation Things To Do Right Thing Another Day

Author:Ben Horowitz

“For me I want to know everything that goes on with my business but at the end of the day I just want to live, experience, be inspired and create music.”

Knows Want Ends Goes On Inspired The End Of The Day Be Inspired

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“I always perform live. I've even received a cortisone injection when I was losing my voice before a big gig so I could fulfill my obligation to the promoter. I felt it the days following after the gig in my throat, but it was nice to know I didn't let anyone down. The show must go on.”

Knows Shows Bigs Felt Voice Nice Goes On Losing Following Obligation Throat Gigs Promoters Injection

Author:Willam Belli

“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.”

Knows Trying Years Real Guy Hours Brain Know How Doubt Week Talent Television Goes On Creating Scientist Cancer Fifty Tobacco Real Talent

Author:Robert Kenner

“One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

Knows Feels Facts Pain Dies Fighting Teach Forever Fool Goes On Speech Good Things Carrie Songwriting Free Speech Reggae No Pain Reggae Music Jamaican Music

Author:Bob Marley

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