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I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book. Kimberly Willis Holt

You Book Tell Write Know How Least Lot Done Many Each Twenty Drafts

The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time. Kurt Busiek

Time Hate People Tell About Write Over Read Because Years Sales Manager Quit Pitches Being Want Stories Them Show Show People Reason Twenty Now Elevator

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. Lester Bangs

You First Think Sold Independent Thousand Between Like Know Talk Terms Couple Underground Go Labels Five Stooges Mean Them Really Iggy Twenty Twenty-Five Things Albums Two

Twenty years ago I went to see this show The Best Disco in Town Live, it was all these disco acts like Gloria Gaynor and Tavares and I had the best night of my life. There was no new music, it was just hits you loved growing up. Limahl

Life Music Best You My Life Live See Had New Town Like Disco Years Years Ago New Music Up Hits Just Loved Show Twenty Growing Growing Up Acts Night

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away. Lou Gramm

Me Will Three Whatever Out Find Cassette Ideas Lot Times Blowing Listen Just Different Them Working Different Things Twenty Away Play Right Things Right Away Start Two

I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day. Louie Schwartzberg

Day Nature You Photography Quality Every Flower Seconds Frame High One Of The Things Minutes Per About High-Quality Like Became Always Got Passionate Shoot Shooting Graduated Wanted Really Means Twenty Film Things Basically Two Filmmaking

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. Lucy Walker

Work Truth Me Truth Is People Better Sometimes Stage Every Secret Secrets Directing Fact Know Make Because How Been Years Trying Any Theater Apart Realize Ask Hard Twenty Film

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don't like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I'll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play. Madison Keys

Morning Game Stress Before Sit Down Every Think Else Minutes About Someone Feel Like Because Match How Up Just Biggest Biggest Thing Them Warm Grip Plan Then Game Plan Twenty Specific Play Routine Thing

I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered. Marcel Duchamp

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. Margaret Oliphant

Fashion Better Mind Style Own Never Always Times Oh Twenty

Latin American Art is an operational term used to describe art actually made in the more than twenty countries that make up Latin America and that encompass Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Mari Carmen Ramirez

Art Made Caribbean Latin Latin America Latin American More Countries Term Make Make Up Operational Encompass South South America Mexico Up Than America American Central Used Describe Twenty Actually

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something. Mark Morris

Working Together Together People Long Build Other Giant Solo Charge See About Something Like Call Doing Duet Lot Up Bigger While Working Works Company Bars Twenty Four Set

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings. Mary H.K. Choi

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years. Mary Kay Blakely

Me Knowledge About Magical Absolute Inspired Years Infant Did Any Dependence Newborn Next Many Activate Twenty Things

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. Mary Schmich

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. Mary Wesley

Car Edge Living Run Cottage Years Years Ago Afford Lovely Twenty

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging. Matt Lauer

I haven't eaten an animal in over twenty years! Matt Skiba

Animal Eaten Over Years Twenty

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done. Michael Schenker

Day Every Day Before Every Had Hours Practiced Least Years Five Done Maybe Then Twenty Ever Four Two

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick. Mick Ralphs

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me. Mike Birbiglia

Me People Films Making End Up Going Twenty

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. Mindy Kaling

Saying You Comedy Stupidity Past Favorite Embarrassed Has-Been Kind Degraded Admission Write Almost Feel Like Comedies Genre Because Revealing Been Years Essentially Movie Romantic Romantic Comedies Romantic Comedy In The Past Really Mild Twenty

I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment. Nell Scovell

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms. Nigel Hamilton

Myself Youth Parents Trouble Rose Reckless Had Joseph Almost Highly Terms Because Gotten His Years Years Ago Fitzgerald Which Twenty Publishing Portrait Kennedy Kennedys

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