"I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Typewriters Quotes

“I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.”

Source : Hosni Mubarak's speech to his nation, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.
“She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are”
“Before every performance I feel nervous.”

Source : "Diego Boneta Dishes On His New Movie, Rock of Ages". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 11, 2012.
“I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.”

Source : "Pacers Notebook/Pacers Make Turnaround". The Journal Gazette, May 24, 2000.
“I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.”
“It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.”

Source : JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”
“We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors”
“If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.292, Random House

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