"If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach."

-- Mem Fox

#Writing Quotes #Difficulty Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.”
“I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

Source : "Law of Software Envelopment",
“Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.”
“Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.”
“I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.”
“Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.”

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