"The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Samantha Hunt

#Forever Quotes #Listening Quotes #Different Quotes

“What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.”
“I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.”
“By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.”
“Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.”

Source : Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.75
“I really do think you lose the audition on the first ten seconds. I think you walk in, the casting directors and the producers and the directors have a real definite feeling of what they're going for, and if you don't look like it, it's pretty much done. Your acting is basically a bonus.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.”
“I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.”
“I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.”

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