You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
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HARRY YOU When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 ... LORNE MICHAELS I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.' AMITY GAIGE A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn... BOB GREEN You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it". CHLOE NEILL Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo... ELLEN WRIGHT Mystery books are different. Genre books are a sonnet. ... If you stay inside the format, you can sa... RITA MAE BROWN This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to ... AGATHA CHRISTIE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have... DAN MARINO Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once... CRAIG GROESCHEL It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to s... GEORGE ELIOT You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important ... AJAY NAIDU We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman,... LISA MCMANN We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. JULIA SOREL You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of. CONSTANTINE KARAMANLIS Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe... GEORGE ELIOT Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. EMMYLOU HARRIS ... ... ...say yes... when you mean yes ... ... ...say no... when you mean no... ... ...know what yo... CHRIS VALENTINO We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory o... DAN BROWN Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of... VIKRAM SETH MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form th... HOLLY MOSIER .... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me.... DEYTH BANGER Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, ... EMMYLOU HARRIS If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more? GREG GUTFELD The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or s... ROBERT PINSKY You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean. UNKNOWN The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for some... SETH GODIN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You can not transmit an idea unl... WALLACE D. WATTLES The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro... JULIA GLASS The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatev... 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NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Yeah, that's right; they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought ... AL PACINO Yeah, that's right; they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought ... AL PACINO Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not percei... MOOSA RAHAT If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks ... SHARON OLDS I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's ... JULIANNE MOORE All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde... ANNIE BESANT The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader,... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's w... JIM GAFFIGAN At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. 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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe... MADELEINE PEYROUX Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ... MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar... MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j... MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ... MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ... MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a... MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE