Quotes by Tobias Wolff

I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

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Famous quote by Frank Lampard

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Edward James Olmos quotes

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

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Top 5 quotes by Paul Haggis

I miss my mother very, very much.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

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Quotes by Mia Farrow

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

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Quotes by Klemens Von Metternich

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Stability is not immobility.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

Charlotte Rae quotes

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

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