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"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
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"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough."
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"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk."
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"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
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"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."
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"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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"I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side."
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"Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses."
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"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
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"What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me."
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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
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"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
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"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
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"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
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"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
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