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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
Anthony Bourdain
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.


J. L. Austin
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Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.
Jason Statham
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Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
John Lahr
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If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?
Dorothy Allison
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Being a perfectionist is really difficult. You're never really happy with what you're doing, no matter how good it is. When you can just release that pressure and be in someone else's work and still have the respect of those creators to bounce off the page and give your ideas that they can take or leave? I really enjoy that.
Rhys Darby
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Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.
Mattie Stepanek
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You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
Milo Ventimiglia
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
Miguel Ferrer
I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
Christopher Nolan
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You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.
Hill Harper
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When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.


Hilary Mantel
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.


Carl Sandburg
Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
Thomas Mars
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.


Paul Auster
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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
Alanis Morissette
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I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
Ernest Hemingway
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