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I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
Isaac Marion
Work
Music
Time
Book
Writing
Band
Painting
Abandon
Would
Give
My Time
Split
Between
Quit
Decided
Gallery
Then
Shot
Used
Show
Serious
Eventually
Start
Album
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
Isabel Allende
Great
Angry
You
People
Try
Think
Books
Say
Fact
Writer
Readership
Insult
Lot
Sell
Get
Little
Such A Thing
Serious
Thing
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
Ismail Kadare
Work
Service
Freedom
You
Writing
Will
Way
Dream
All Writers
One-Way
Writer
Writers
Know
Another
Understand
Normal
Just
Serious
If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else.
Isobelle Carmody
Good
Fashion
Young
Else
Both
Adult
Well
Read
Content
Done
Young Adults
Children
Literary
Anything
Anything Else
Fantasy
Really
Serious
Suffer
To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
Itzhak Perlman
Music
Good
People
Will
Difficult
Way
Something
Piece
Make
Learned
Audience
Does
Accessible
Reducing
Get
Any
Little
Mean
Large
Large Audience
Even
Serious
Bring
Difficult People
The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
J. C. Watts
Myself
Vote
Black
Made
Believe
Late
Some
About
Percent
More
GOP
Than
Candidates
Ponder
Decisions
Serious
Capturing
Bring
Only person who took me serious was my mom and my sister Rachael.
J.I.D
Mom
Me
Sister
Took
Only
Person
Who
Serious
Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
J. R. Martinez
Me
Joke
Running
Sport
Serious
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule
Life
Education
Focus
My Life
Become
Changed
Sole
Definitely
Truly
Very
Jail
Being
Breaking
Cycle
Cool
Serious
Extent
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
Problem
Inflation
Deflation
Borrower
Equally
Real
Opposite
Real Problem
Serious
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
Jack Lew
Government
Pay
Our
Running
Overall
Policy
Fiscal
Question
Very
Bills
Serious
I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
Jack Nicklaus
Hope
Good
You
Yourself
Trouble
Luck
Believe
Bad
Find
Through
Sure
Ball
Where
Golf
Anyway
Hole
Serious
Round
Pull
Position
President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.
Jack Reed
Respect
Problem
Before
President
Savings
Took
President Trump
Jobs
Tries
Take
He
Were
Trump
Office
Achieved
Create
Even
Serious
Credibility
Credit
Program
My cat Isabella, she doesn't get along with anyone else. She's kind of like me: like, very anti-social and fierce. So we speak to each other on a spiritual level, and we cuddle every night. So it's pretty serious.
Jacob Whitesides
Spiritual
Me
Speak
Every
Other
Else
Kind
Pretty
Cat
Along
Like
She
Very
Get
Anyone
Anyone Else
Fierce
Each
Serious
Level
Every Night
Night
I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
Jaden Smith
Needs
Revolution
Society
Way
Evolve
Take
Feel
Like
Exist
Truly
Human
Where
Order
Human Beings
Place
Beings
Serious
I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.
Jaggi Vasudev
Love
Training
Way
Ourselves
Involved
Without
Any
Being
Games
Serious
Play
I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Jake Roberts
You
Man
Stupid
Snake
Drawer
Claimed
Never
Knife
Sharpest
Supposed
Still
Serious
Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
James Blunt
Time
Every
Every Time
Interview
Everything
Something
Mentally
Feel
Like
Well
Real
Fortunate
Therapy
Serious
Ever
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
James Brolin
Family
Joke
Every
Bone
Had
No-One
Answer
Prank
Where
Body
Riddle
Serious
Raised
Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
James Comey
Law
Relate
Appropriate
Law Enforcement
About
Taking
Force
How
Debates
Place
Personnel
Enforcement
Use
Communities
Serious
Serve
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
James Forrestal
Country
Extraordinarily
Immediate
Threat
Continue
Existence
Serious
Grave
If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.
James Gray
You
Moon
Others
Astronauts
Kind
About
Mental
Read
Another
Walked
To The Moon
Who
Trauma
Serious
Suffered
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
James Howe
Video Games
Hope
World
Gift
Humor
Laughter
Threats
Give
More
Reminder
Most
Terribly
Reader
Than
Precious
Precious Gift
Place
Video
Games
Serious
Nuclear
I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
James Howe
World
Way
Seeing
About
More
Concerns
Selves
Than
Personal
Apart
Separate
Professional
Serious
Keep
We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.
James Lankford
Try
Complain
Solve
About
Facing
Step
Issues
Either
Serious
Serious Issues
I can't see Jeremy Clarkson having very many serious problems in his working life in the long run.
James May
Life
Problems
Long
Run
See
Having
Long Run
His
Very
Working
Working Life
Many
Serious
Jeremy
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