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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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• I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

  David Baldacci

  Lasers, Lasts, Hundred

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• I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

  Aidan Chambers

  Struggle, Puff, Sometimes

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• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Two, Next Day

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• For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

  Lincoln Child

  Hard Work, Writing, Matter

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• Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

  Marco Arment

  Support, Touching, Doe

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• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  Dan Auerbach

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

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• You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

  Debbie Allen

  Talking, Acting, Firsts

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• Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

  Peter Coyote

  White, House, Firsts

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• No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Artist, People, Use

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• I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

  Jim Dale

  Writing, Kids, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.

  Nick Denton

  Depressing, Moving, Fall

  "Nick Denton: how Gawker's blogging has evolved" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Real, People

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• In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Writing, Space

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• I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

  Greta Gerwig

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

  Marc Andreessen

  Looks, Host, Internet

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Father, Years, Birth

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• I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

  Guy Pearce

  Character, Trying, Together

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• Another murder I committed made the front page.

  Eazy-E

  Murder, Made, Committed

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• I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Writing, Long, Mind

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• I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Revolution, Resumes, Mark

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• Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Kids, Science

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1968, Best Books on

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• As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Strong, Real, Reading

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Wind

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