Ray McKinnon famous quotes
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There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.
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Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.
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From my experience and observing a lot of other people that often times that only happens - a transformational experience or shedding of the skin - happens when we are at the end of our road and there is pain involved. We have to change or we continue to live in that almost intolerable pain.
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You can't please everyone. You've got to please yourself, I guess.
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If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.
-- Ray McKinnon
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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