As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
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Related The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podi... WILL SELF I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day! BRENDA SONG I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I wa... RAFAEL VINOLY I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they b... GORDON PARKS To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work exte... BRYCE COURTENAY I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so che... KATE MOSS I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gard... GATES MCFADDEN When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I... GARY VAYNERCHUK To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether ... ALICE MCDERMOTT Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time ... JIM WOODRING There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life ... JOHN LEGEND I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see scienc... NEIL TUROK Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential fa... HENRY PETROSKI I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs o... PETE SEEGER I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in... KANGANA RANAUT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concer... DYLAN MORAN For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. ... WILL ALLISON I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that... RICHARD M. NIXON I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd ne... ERNEST CLINE I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another i... ELIZABETH STROUT The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re... JOE BASTIANICH If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstanc... JOSEPH LELYVELD I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf.
(When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) TUG MCGRAW [Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other.] I ... BILL KELLER Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the st... JOHN GREEN I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition. ILYA ILYIN And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will... THOMAS PAINE When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an... NATE SILVER There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, ... RALPH MACCHIO If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail messag... JIM RASH I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Sh... CHRIS CRUTCHER I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and rest... DREW BARRYMORE No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... HARRY REID With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty o... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any w... BILL VIOLA During the next few years I wrote a series of Martian pensées, Shakespearean "asides," wandering th... RAY BRADBURY I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for ... MARC ALMOND But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of ... STEPHEN KING Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, ... KATHERINE RYAN I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everyt... VENUS WILLIAMS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ROBERT BENCHLEY It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, ... BIPASHA BASU Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focu... RICK ALLEN Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focu... RICK SAVAGE Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the fir... GEORGE HARRISON This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned ... EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on ... GLENN BECK My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it... CAROL LEIFER In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natura... CAT STEVENS If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd go... 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PENELOPE LIVELY I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a ... AARON PAUL If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the... ALAN GREENSPAN By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if S... MARG HELGENBERGER In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of ... PETE TOWNSHEND I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that wer... RICHARD M. NIXON It's a local focus on celebrating the talents of our community, a way to view our past, whether it's... IRENE KOEHLER It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. CHARLES DARWIN It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine CHARLES DARWIN It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're... IAN MCEWAN I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or p... JOANNA RUSS I don't want to jinx him or put any additional pressure on John or Andy May or anyone else for that ... BRIAN DICKMANN I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally... DINAW MENGESTU No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of be... 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