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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Natalie Goldberg

True, Writing, Anyone

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Andrew Young

Work, Men, Tomorrow

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.
Franz Beckenbauer

Ourselves, Top, Teams

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Patricia Highsmith

Bad, Nothing, Book

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness

Foolish, Follows

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
Dave Blood

Control, Trying, Energy

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Minna Antrim

Moral, Pleasure, Complains

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Bill Veeck

Yourself, Mind, Someone

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael

Artist, Himself, Medium

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katharine Whitehorn

Firm, Obstinate

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
Chili Davis

Different, Same, Around

Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Nile Rodgers

Music, Business, Anybody

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
Nile Rodgers

Good, Person, Movie

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Alain de Botton

Work, Live, Someone

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
Roone Arledge

Business, Powerful, Different

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
Sean Hayes

Gay, Down, Working

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.
Amy Smart

Scared, Front, Complete

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
James Blunt

Stupid, Thinking, Enough

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo

Marriage, Good, Live

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.
Sissy Spacek

Good, Creative, Wonderful

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
Joanna Southcott

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J. B. Morton

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
Donald Tusk

Evil, Around, Communism

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker

Age, Wisdom, School

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
William Sessions

Life, Forward, Made

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson

Music, Teacher, Play

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.
Shirley Henderson

Time, Yourself, Brave

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
Frank Robinson

Win, Making, Himself

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