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My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

~Donald Mckay

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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

~Donald Miller

Topics: Boring Cognitive Come Compelling Drafts First Here Idea Incredibly Justification Like Make Off Rational Reading Reasons Right Tend Very Write

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Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

~Donald Norman

Topics: Basically Being Communicate Description Exercises First How Impossible Learning Point Show Text Tie Use Write Your

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They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

~Donald O'Connor

Topics: Back Came Courage First First Time Harness Horse Learn Like Me Practice Put Time Up Weird

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Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Always Did Fact Felt First Got Guilt He Himself His Live Michael Responsible Sister Stop

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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Bullets Carpenter End First Get Halloween John Looking Lying Michael Out Said Seeing Shot Window You

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The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Also Been First First One Had Halloween Like Made Nothing Perhaps Second Series Third Though Very Well

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Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

~Donald Rumsfeld

Topics: Business Family Family Business Fine First Help Him Leave Likely Manage Plenty President Trying Will Without You Your

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Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

~Donald Rumsfeld

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The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

~Donald Rumsfeld

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