#elf

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. ↗

— George Saunders

#beautifully #because #bit #down #feel

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#believe #believe in yourself #enough #equal #equal right

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. ↗

— John Sayles

#average #change #direct #draft #first

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#immediate #means #neither #ridiculous #sneeze

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#distraction #itself #out

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#exterior #himself #man #objects #organs

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#better #enjoyable #hear #i #live

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. ↗

— John Sayles

#book #books #came #certainly #down

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. ↗

— John Sayles

#first #get #getting #got #i

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself. ↗

— Steven Saylor

#had #i #ideal #myself #say