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“The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.”

People Writing Ideas Belief Grows Ability Emotion Support Special Profound Spread Profession Crafts Mistaken Shallow Mediocre Glamour Mystique Special Gifts

Book:Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

“Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.”

Different Deals Directors Insane Producers Mystique

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.”

Want Years Art Use Difficult Ten Benefits Perseverance Thirty Martial Arts Thirty Years Mystique Tai Chi

Author:Ma Yueliang

“There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.”

Has Beens Romance Term Differences Principles Involved Customers Bars Selling Seats Aviation Chocolate Satisfying Airline Mystique Chocolate Bars

Author:Mike Batt

“Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.”

Stories Intelligent Debt Feminine Mystique Domesticity Intelligent Women Feminine Mystique

Author:Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.”

Thinking Mind Said States Texas State Of Mind Mystique Texan

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.”

People Mean Fun Stuff Perfect Add Bother Nonsense Cycling Mystique Wacky Cryptic

Author:Peter Sagan

“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

Earth Spiritual Poet Depends Poetic Discourse Mystique Spiritual Freedom

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.”

Book Reading Laughing Mark Brilliant Loud Our Time Feminine Shocking Mystique Confidential Laugh Out Loud Feminine Mystique Laugh Out Loud Funny

Author:Debby Applegate

“I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.”

Long Real Stars Mystery Glamour Old Days Mystique Hepburn Audrey

Author:Pixie Lott

“Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.”

Children Self Helping Problem Pain Mother Women Goal Growing Generations Strange Discipline Endure Driving Pursue Boredom Inability Homework Mystique Feminine Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.”

Thinking Amount Fairs Southern Mystique Southerner

Author:Reynolds Price

“Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.”

Men Should Grows Causes Events Television He Man Stronger Reports Fades Never Quit Mystique

Book:The Selling of the President 1968

Source: The Selling of the President 1968

“For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.”

Ifs Four Player Picks Tradition Atmosphere Slam Mystique Wimbledon

Author:Stefan Edberg

“Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.”

Want Looks Play Actors Looking Good Mystique

Author:Joe Morton