"No writer should minimize the factor that affects……" — John Jakes
"No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck."
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13 Quotes by John Jakes
John Jakes has 13 quotes on this site.
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The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes…
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Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop…
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Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell
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Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves.…
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Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
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Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed…
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The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
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Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write,…
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We are all dying of life.
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The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From…
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I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One…
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The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire…
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More Affects Quotes
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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
— Tyra Banks
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
— Danny Boyle
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
— Samuel Butler
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
— David Byrne
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in…
— Amy Chua
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
— Kurt Cobain
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
— Jennifer Aniston
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