Pages Quotes - Page 29

• Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Six, Sometimes

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• I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Practice, Fool

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• It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

  Sivananda

  Book, Heart, Source

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

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• Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Book, Looks

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2014

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• It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

  Julia Child

  Regret, Writing, Fate

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• Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Country, Religious, Government

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• Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Writing, Voice, Kind

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• Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Thinking, Weakness

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• I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

  Kitty Kelley

  Jobs, Years, Four

  "Smudging a Senator’s Legacy" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Air, Done, May

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• The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.

  Robert Burchfield

  Doctors, Adults, Diaries

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• Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

  Barbara Mertz

  Writing, Character, Knowing

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• I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

  Hume Cronyn

  Apology, Play, Trying

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• I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

  John Larroquette

  Book, Play, Letters

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• Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

  Gillian Anderson

  Reality, Scripts, Sometimes

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• I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

  Matthew Perry

  Gay, Internet, Found

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• I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

  Chuck D

  Hate, Kashmir, Classic

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Attention, Pay, Baltimore

  RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "The Bill Clinton I knew" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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• I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

  Ned Beauman

  Firsts, Novel

  "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Kindness, Love Is, People

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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