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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw

Work, Writing, Find

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
Daniel H. Wilson

Work, Strange, Dangerous

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
Michael Pollan

Experience, Writing, Stand

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.
Laurel Clark

Life, Wings, Lots

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.
Trevor Dunn

Strong, South, Louis

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
Julian Casablancas

Fun, Play, Sometimes

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.
Craig Kilborn

Past, Three, Worked

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Fun, Black, Living

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Job, Opinion, Far

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.
Joe Frazier

Rock, Hard, Body

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry

Excuses, Behind, City

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
Michael Lewis

Love, Respect, Children

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
William O. Douglas

Government, Silence, Point

It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.
Paz Vega

May, Lives, Screen

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
James Gandolfini

Good, Writing, Sometimes

I like dark places.
James Gandolfini

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
Leonard Nimoy

Work, Why, Idea

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
Jim Gerlach

Sea, Meet, Sounds

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
Fran Drescher

Choose, Shopping, Anymore

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
Fran Drescher

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
Jeff Goldblum

Big, Alaska, Trips

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
Jeff Goldblum

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.
Marlon Wayans

Crazy, Reality, Lost

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.
Tim Scott

Politics, Black, America

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
Joshua Chamberlain

Battle, Find, Sick

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
Mark Hoppus

Age, Teacher, Wife

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
Emma Donoghue

Different, Situation, Novel

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
Danny Glover

Hope, Struggle, Small

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
James Levine

Work, Time, Pretty

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour

Music, Great, Together

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