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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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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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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"In my beginning is my end."
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"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
Employment
"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."
Office
"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
Time
"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
Thought
"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."
Computer
"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."
Money
"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
Reading
"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
Beginning
"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."
Fact
"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
Writing
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