#she

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#am #being #component #i #i am

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#blunders #fool #makes #means #nature

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #i am #jr #name #sherman

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #distinguishes #err #felt #human

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it. ↗

— Gary Allan

#beat #different #done #finished #hear

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#his way #just #little #pushes #them