"After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value."

-- Leslie Jamison

#Sick Quotes #Mind Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.118, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!”
“The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.”
“It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but itâ€™s inevitable”
“I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.”
“I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.”
“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”
“People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.”

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