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Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enthusiasm is the thing which makes the world go round. Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done. Love, friendship, religion, altruism, devotion to career or hobby-all these, and most of the other good things of life, are forms of enthusiasm.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
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I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
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Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.
