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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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Personal Development
"Nothing can come of nothing."
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Personal Development
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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Personal Development
"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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Personal Development
"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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Personal Development
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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Personal Development
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
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Personal Development
"There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it."
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Personal Development
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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"I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom."
Writing
"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies."
Character
"The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments."
Cause
"I write because I can't imagine not writing."
Writing
"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
Character
"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
Art
"I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality."
Nothing
"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
Reading
"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
Work
"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day."
Writing
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