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All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There… — Seth Troxler Copy Share Image
Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick… — Harry Yoxall Copy Share Image
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Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
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At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition."… — Ken Dornstein Copy Share Image
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