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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#good #good writing #holding #swimming #under

If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be satisfied that you've done the best work you can do at this stage in your life as an author. Then roll the rocket onto the launch pad and fire it off. After that, write another story. Always keep going. Move fast. Stay one step ahead of the forces of distraction and self-doubt. Love your characters enough to give them a good home. Love your readers enough to give them a place of refuge from life's tragedies, big and small. And love the world you live in enough to make it the world of your dreams. ↗

— James Hampton

#creative-process #writing-process #dreams

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time. ↗

— Joan Collins

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Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods. ↗

— Joan Collins

#believe #eating #foods #i #i believe

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it. ↗

— Joan Collins

#because #care #films #get #i

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#area #been #interest #major #me

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. ↗

— Paula Cole

#anger #back #become #bring #compassion

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks. ↗

— Paula Cole

#being #challenge #connect #eye #folks

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do. ↗

— Paula Cole

#actually #become #bothers #break #climbing

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#character #contributing #funny #guy #had