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I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.
Holly Black
I'm probably tougher on myself than I used to be. I'll revise my lyrics more. Part of that is working with the right people and producers who will say, 'How can you make that better?' Allowing yourself to collaborate with people will push you toward transcendence.
John Legend
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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Throsby Bridges
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.


Ringo Starr
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Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.
John Updike
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But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.
Eric Alterman
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
K. A. Applegate
In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
Peter Mayle
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
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I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.


Terry Gross
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I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
Billy Collins
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My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Rashid Johnson
Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Jim McKay
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Billy Collins
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
H. P. Lovecraft
Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
Christina Aguilera
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.


Quintilian
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Billy Collins
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
Gaby Hoffmann
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
Vera Wang