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I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

#been #being #conscious #consciously #going

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#assert #be yourself #order #something #you

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#i #i remember #push-ups #remember #sometimes

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? ↗

— Dennis Potter

#create #human #leap #metaphor #speech

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#born #great #great art #metropolis

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#one thing #only #should #something #suppose

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #annoying #back #conversation #degree

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#down #drive #ghastly #hand #hundred

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down