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“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Apr 06, 2013
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“[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.”
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“I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.”
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“As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.”
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“When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.”
Source : "Alesha Dixon: My Mum Taught Me That Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" by Leigh Purves, www.express.co.uk. August 05, 2013.
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“An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.”
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“A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.”
Source : "Mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark on her successful career and teaming with her famed mom to bring their popular characters to TV". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
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“Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.”