#rove

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#again #agent #anywhere #draft #editor

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #come #draft #eyes #figure

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#commit #fails #good #good governance #governance

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#because #courage #figure #figure skating #hard

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#did #drove #i #miserable #much

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#men #old #old men #prove #should

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#david #director #great #hate #him

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#feature #feature film #film #film industry #finland

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#divisions #entire #government #i #inhabit

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient