"I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid"

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Source : Ivana Trump (2017). “Raising Trump”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

Ivana Trump

#Babysitter Quotes

“I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in problem solving. Every act of discovery in writing involves a process of figuring out why I'm not seeing what I need to see. Niggling feelings, discomforts, a sense that you've forgotten or overlooked something, a sudden curiosity about what if here? - these are priceless. They are the bases of problems and lead the way.”
“If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.”
“Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.133, Shambhala Publications
“There's no map to human behaviour.”
“...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his...”
“I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.”
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”
“If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.”

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