Open Quotes
8389 quotes by 4867 authors
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Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
— Red Smith
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Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I…
— Joan Rivers
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Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was…
— Emma Watson
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international…
— Abba Eban
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Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open…
— Ivana Trump
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied…
— Unknown Author
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... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do…
— Robert Pattinson
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Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open…
— Kathy Bates
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The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.
— Edward Snowden
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Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best…
— Harrison Owen
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People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we…
— Barack Obama
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I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities…
— Sam Zell
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I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like…
— Drake
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Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
— Amy Hempel
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I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED.…
— Amy Tan
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There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a…
— Elizabeth Berg
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You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in…
— Elizabeth Berg
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Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls…
— Anne Lamott
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