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I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.


Junot Diaz

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I write very slowly.
CARLA BLEY Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON These pieces relate to the sculptural work. Sculpture is a very physical art form for him and these ...
MICHELE QUINN I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
MAURICE RAVEL The diligence of the NYPD Transit Bureau in fighting crime is slowly becoming the stuff of legends. ...
PAUL FLEURANGES I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does...
JOHN IRVING For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ...
JILL MCCORKLE I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sor...
JOSS STONE I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you kn...
PETER WEIR I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy P...
SAM ROCKWELL No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures ...
CASSANDRA CLARE My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at th...
BETH MOORE I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for stri...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient...
PETER WEIR In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe...
EVELYN LAU I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and d...
BINDI IRWIN When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the...
SHAUNA NIEQUIST It's about time. For all the hard work and everything, I would have been very disappointed if I didn...
KURT KUCHENBROD When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are re...
WANGARI MAATHAI One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored v...
TIBOR FISCHER To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re...
ANNIE BESANT I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles...
JONES VERY The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. ...
JONES VERY As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural...
JONES VERY We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on wh...
JONES VERY Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b...
JONES VERY For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
BORIS BECKER I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These ex...
ROBERT LANZA I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are ve...
JAMES PATTERSON I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work,...
N. T. WRIGHT I started to grow microbial cellulose to explore an ecofriendly textile for clothing and accessories...
SUZANNE LEE How do I know that? He told me that. He said to me: 'You believe in peace, I don't believe we can ha...
YOSSI BEILIN I live in a beautiful place, I work at something I love, I make enough money to live, and my demands...
JOHN BROWN The 1/1 cut signatures are going to make some very lucky collectors very, very happy. Since actors A...
MATTHEW SAUNDERS I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I'm kind of a tomboy, but I thr...
SOFIA RICHIE Friends are very important to me and it's very difficult to make a friendship. I don't take it light...
BILL BIXBY You're flying in the sky, gathering clouds to make storms. You have to play it slowly. It's very bea...
CAROLYN COHAGAN I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.
JULIETTE BINOCHE I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track o...
ALBERTO JUANTORENA You don't have your depth of resources that can go in and manage these very complex fires.
GARY GILBERT Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to r...
SIMON RAVEN I have a low level of confidence in our human resources effort. I think we're very closed, very ince...
HARVIN MOORE We had a very long meeting. Although we have all these expectations, I wanted them to realize that t...
JASON PIRES They're going to have to work day and night to write all these laws.
ALI DABBAGH I felt the conference was very informative, fun, interesting and quite powerful. I took some very im...
JACLYN FROMER You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and ...
GEORGE MARTIN For these two individuals, one of whom knows how to make Governments change but the other knows how ...
JACK MCCONNELL I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies ver...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I'm very honored that fans voted for me for this award. Although very flattering, I know that all th...
ANA IVANOVIC I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I...
HELMUT NEWTON I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try ...
FRED ARMISEN Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK I like to cook things very slowly.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration....
BILLY GRAHAM The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The work in which that committee engages is clearly the most sensitive of any committee of the Congr...
BOB BARR I feel very strongly for two pieces again. Triangle bikinis, bando bikinis and, of course, the athle...
ADRIENNE VITTADINI I don't see it penciling out for (Mahoning Valley). I wouldn't do it. I don't have that big an ego t...
JASON MARTEL Today is a very special day because, all the Sub & Supra conscious resources have come together to m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a serious pursuit and a fascination, ... I write for dozens of publications about all sorts of ...
CHESTER MOORE I want to make sure I have one of these.
ANN MARSHALL O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN You know, I'm not one of these people that just because I've done all that I now become Superman. Yo...
PAUL MCCARTNEY The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the m...
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Obviously, I'm a very happy coach tonight. This is what we work for all year and the kids all worked...
DON CRAWFORD Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Would you not like to try all sorts of lives / one is so very small / but that is the satisfaction o...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction o...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very...
ED O'NEILL We're hitting these fires very hard and heavy from the air. Local firefighters are starting to call ...
LUDIE EHLERS I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of n...
FARLEY MOWAT The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that...
CHARLES M. BLOW In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be...
MARK BRIDGES I won one of these in 1947 and it was very encouraging, and it's very encouraging now,
GREGORY PECK I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys ...
AMY ADAMS Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because...
JOHN RIDLEY We're all very excited at the prospect of being one of the top programs in the state. I'm proud of a...
NATALIE APOSHIAN I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr...
SALMAN RUSHDIE We work very hard not to have these events. We're certainly very prepared to manage.
AARON WOODS The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would b...
WERNER HEISENBERG When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone,...
JIM BUTCHER I project a year that we're all going to have to work together for ways to better use our resources.
DAVID RHODES Dennis is very affable. He likes to joke all the time. He has a very open personality. I thought I w...
FRED COHEN The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
JEAN GIRAUD Japanese companies basically follow one of two models: They're open or they're closed. Japanese make...
KOYA TABATA Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
IAN HART No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make ...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. O...
HUBERT SELBY, JR. It made me very happy to have two runners make all-conference. The kids stepped up and competed very...
IAN BATTLES I had a meeting with the producer of 'Five Easy Pieces,' which is my favorite movie. He intr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH I became part of your fantasy, hoping that one day you would become part of mine!
FRANCESCA MULONE When a man is struggling for his life, and groups and people are passing all sorts of judgments, it'...
MALCOLM HEDDING Typically if I take [a buyer] out to a property and we get stood up by the tenant, that reflects bad...
TIM FINN People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn...
RAVI SUBRAMANIAN I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first...
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CAMERON DIAZ I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I'...
CAMERON DIAZ I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
CAMERON DIAZ I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poiso...
CAMERON DIAZ I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experi...
CAMERON DIAZ When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
CAMERON DIAZ What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law fi...
MELONIE DIAZ Most men are the same. They're only interested in fucking you and they don't care whether you're hap...
CAMERON DIAZ I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's prob...
CAMERON DIAZ When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Pat...
MADI DIAZ I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frog...
CAMERON DIAZ You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
CAMERON DIAZ My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won...
CAMERON DIAZ French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That an...
CAMERON DIAZ I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter ...
GUILLERMO DIAZ Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
RICHARD DIAZ I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.
GUILLERMO DIAZ It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying...
NATE DIAZ I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours ar...
CAMERON DIAZ I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror,...
CAMERON DIAZ Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I do...
CAMERON DIAZ Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
CAMERON DIAZ If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's record...
CAMERON DIAZ After a hard days work, it's nice to go back to the trailer and see him [her cat] sitting there wait...
CAMERON DIAZ It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you ... That's how we make changes i...
CAMERON DIAZ In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through, ... The grass is always gree...
CAMERON DIAZ I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your...
CAMERON DIAZ I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
CAMERON DIAZ I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
CAMERON DIAZ The best way to find anything is to look with an opened mind.
RICHARD DIAZ The rules are tricky and you have to be careful so you don't have to start all over. You really have...
CARMEN DIAZ We're hoping to start a new tradition.
CARMEN DIAZ We're trying to keep the tradition alive. Many don't celebrate it anymore.
CARMEN DIAZ We've participated in so many festivals and activities in the community. It shows we're a growing co...
CARMEN DIAZ Look, I'm in the moment.
CARLOS DIAZ