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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ↗

— Robert Collier

#adversity #defeat #equivalent #every #how

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too! ↗

— Jackie Collins

#always #australia #because #been #city

In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done. ↗

— Susan Collins

#beefing #clearly #could #countries #done

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#generally #i #music #outcome #part

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#believe #doing #gravitate #i #i believe

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#situation #than #think #understand #worse

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. ↗

— Bill Condon

#belong #does #imposition #morality #onto

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be. ↗

— Bill Condon

#being #director #each #get #i

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#banging #go #grow #just #more