"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Blood Quotes #Way Quotes #Beats Quotes

“The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.”

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“It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.”
“Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.”
“I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world”
“One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience”
“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”
“My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.”

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“I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.”

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