"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

-- Iain Banks

#Writing Quotes #Skills Quotes #Ability Quotes

“It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.”
“But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.”
“If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.”
“In writing the new films, Iâ€™ve come to realize that AVATARâ€™s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.”
“Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.”
“I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.”
“To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.”
“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.”

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