Stuart Woods famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
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It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.
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I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
-- Stuart Woods
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Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.
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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
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I suppose that I am ambitious.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
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I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.
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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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