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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#book #contract #first #forth #get

Deal-making goes on with any job. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#goes #job

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#articles #artist #bought #copy #did

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#family #had #i #knew #neglect

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#clothes #community #complain #cooked #crippled

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #being afraid #go #i #i think

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#having #hope #i #learnt #next

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ↗

— Serge Gainsbourg

#because #lasts #superior #ugliness #way

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#deny #does #exist #exists #explain

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#kicking #revolutions #rotten #successful