"Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent……" — Louise Brooks
"Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination."
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17 Quotes by Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks has 17 quotes on this site.
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
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In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it…
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't…
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When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits…
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Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass…
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so…
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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More Brevity Quotes
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one of 86 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two…
— George Burns
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
— Horace
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and…
— Eduard Suess
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for…
— Michel de Montaigne
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My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know…
— Ali Smith
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