"It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me."

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Source : Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

Kelly Link

#Writing Quotes #Balance Quotes #Unlikely Quotes

“Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.”
“My job is to give my team a chance to win.”
“Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.”
“Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.16
“I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.”
“In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into the love that is God. Let me repeat that...We breathe love in, and we breathe love out. It is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It is never exhausted, always expanding. When I try to describe this reality, words fail me; so I simply utter the name God. That name, however, is no longer for me the name of a being...”
“I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.”
“Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.”

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