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“I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.”
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“Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?”
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“I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.”
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“How innocent were these Trees, that in Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze, Stood garlanded and gay; Who now in sundown glow Of serious colour clad confront me with their show As though resigned and sad, Trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold; Pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old; Elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, I am merged in you, Who tell once more in tones of time, Your foliaged farewell.”
Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1956). “Sequences”
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“For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.”
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“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.”
Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey
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“...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.”
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“At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.”
Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books