"I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Natalie Merchant

#Writing Quotes

“Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.”
“Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.”
“Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.”
“Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.”
“I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.”
“As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.”
“A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.”

Source : "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 98, 1976.
“I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?”

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