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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."
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"He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training."
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"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
Time
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
Information
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
Beauty
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
Nature
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
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