"Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance."

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Stanley Schmidt

#Writing Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Style Quotes

“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.”
“True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.”
“There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind-not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madÃ©casses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.”

Source : "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.
“The game honors toughness”
“Humor is man's greatest blessing.”
“If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.”
“I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.”

Source : Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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