#sine

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#asked #been #business #did #done

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#brought #business #choices #come #criminals

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#business #certainly #give #got #news

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#beat #bed #broadcast #business #competition

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up. ↗

— John Thune

#be prepared #business #contact #describe #full

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#create #customer #purpose

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#business #dirty #exactly #find #freedom

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#after #anything #been #business #develop

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get