"You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with."

-- Philipp Meyer

#Believe Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.”
“Everybody calls me fat all the time, so I can't wait to have a reason, instead of everybody just being a jerk! I've never been Gisele BÃ¼ndchen, so ain't nobody expectin' that! I like to set a [low] standard so people don't expect a lot.”

Source : "Kelly Clarkson's Best Christmas Ever: Marriage, Baby, and a New Holiday Album!". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. Novemebr 21, 2013.
“Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.”
“Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.”
“For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.”
“For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.”
“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

Source : "'The Help' co-star Octavia Spencer and writer/director Tate Taylor". Interview with Matt Pais, www.latimes.com. August 7, 2011.
“It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.”

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