Amity Shlaes
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... 
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writin... 
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. 
I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you
I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent averag... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with ... 
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... 
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business fo... 
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing ever... 
So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as... 
Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, y... 
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You&#... 
When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you... 
I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... 
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. 
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that beca... 
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you shou... 
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... 
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possi... 
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always di... 
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time try... 
If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you... 
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material see... 
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it.... 
The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it&... 
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny... 
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st... 
Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with li... 
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want i... 
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because oth... 
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms. 
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I wa... 
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discov... 
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i... 
If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other. 
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, b... 
The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They'r... 
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not t... 
The world is a beautiful place
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Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but becau... 
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called mat... 
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversa... 
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a... 
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for ... 
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Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you ... 
Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you ar... 
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people. 
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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public sch... 
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. ... 
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applicat... 
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who ...