"To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing."

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Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

Vicki Baum

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Might Quotes

“I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.”

Source : "A Fashionable Life: Paloma Picasso" by Dana Thomas, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2010.
“You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.”
“People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 26, 2006.
“Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.”
“A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.”

Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”
“Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.”
“Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.”
“Every time I make another record and every time I get a year older, I become more and more confident in who I am and more in tune with what I want as a person. I think it's the same for anyone in any walk of life. You just grow with experience and become more confident in exploring new things.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

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