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Quote wall: David McCullough

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > There’s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop,

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Quote wall: Carl Sagan

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. —Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Part 11: The Persistence of Memory)

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Quote wall: Nina LaCour

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Some work on most days. —Nina LaCour While taking LaCour's writing course, The Slow Novel Lab [https://the-slow-novel-lab.

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Quote wall: Ali Wong

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > I mostly bombed. It's the only way to get good. —Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets

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Quote wall: Raymond Chandler

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Two very simple rules, a: you don’t have to write. b: you can’t do anything else. —Raymond Chandler,

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Quote wall: Note to self

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > No one will care about this work as much as you, therefore you will have to do it yourself. (A

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Quote wall: Brian Koppelman

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Never let them tell you you're dead. You're not. You're alive. And you have

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Quote wall: Questlove

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > You have to throw some things away so that there is some value implied by the act of keeping others.

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Quote wall: Colum McCann

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > You have to show up for work. You have to sit in the chair and fight the blankness. ... You have

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Quote wall: Steven Johnson

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > In my experience, the more subtle threat ... comes via the eminently reasonable belief that you’re not ready to start