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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Actually Adopted Although Any Aspiring College Doing Dressed Meaning Myself Sort Think Were Writer Writing I Think

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It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

~Anurag Kashyap

Topics: Aspiring Cinema Delhi Discovered Early Early 1990S Only Scientist Student University World Years 1990S

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Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

~Arianna Huffington

Topics: Alone Aspiring Become Becoming Chance Class Game Increasingly Middle Middle Class Staying

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Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Aspiring Fling How Inevitably Interviews Literary Little More Nuts Other Packed People Readily Than Very Work Writers

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By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.

~Caroline Ghosn

Topics: Act Also Aspiring Certain Certain Way Female Generation Hurting Individuals Leaders Look Male Models Next Next Generation Only Passionate Respected Rigid Role Role Models Saying Those Watching Way Who

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When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

~Carrie Vaughn

Topics: About Ask Aspiring Attention Category Effort End Falling Genre How Kind Me Pay Perceived Restrict Should Stereotypes Tailor Target Tell Them Thing Toward Up Will Work Writers Writing You Your

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I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.

~Chantal Sutherland

Topics: Aspiring Back Become Cows Dreams Feeding Finally Girl Had Jockey Little Little Girl Lived Many Out Pony Professional Races Racing Riding Stage Stakes Worldwide

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Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.

~Charlie Ebersol

Topics: Aspiring Calls Director Every Meetings Phone Phone Calls Producer Take Two Week

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I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.

~Chris Roberson

Topics: About Always Amused Aspiring Could Course Ever Just Naive Out People Point Process Publishing Reality Since Unbelievable Writer

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Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

~Chris Sarandon

Topics: Acting Actor Advice Aspiring Attained Being Bitter Disappointment Fame Fame And Fortune Feel Fortune Go Goals Lifestyle People Reasons Seductive Shortcut Sometimes Stage Think Twice Wrong Wrong Reasons

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