Journal Quotes - Page 5

• I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Writing, Play

  "Win An Autographed World Cup Game Ball!". Interview with Kim Tranell, www.seventeen.com. September 14, 2011.

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• When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Thinking, Sick

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.

  Michael Arrington

  Funny, Believe, Mean

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• I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

  Brent Runyon

  Mother, Father, Progress

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• I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.

  Amy Ray

  Book, Writing, Play

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Keeping a journal implies hope.

  Erica Jong

  Keeping A Journal

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

  Tom Brokaw

  Years, Scandal, Life Is

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• Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

  Ted Kooser

  Heart, Care, Keeping A Journal

  Ted Kooser (2014). “The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

  E.G. Daily

  Writing, Singing, Moved

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

  Joshua Rogers

  Art, Wall, Creating

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• From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

  Hoda Kotb

  Dad, Cancer, Divorce

  Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mother, Father, Married

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Teacher, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Garrett Hedlund 'On the road,' on illegal drugs, getting naked and Twihards" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 18, 2012.

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• When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

  Duke of Wellington

  Legacy, Statues

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• I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Feelings, Keepers

  "Kidd, Taylor take personal journey with Pomegranates". Interview with Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. September 13, 2009.

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• The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Flower, Locks, Done

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• I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Writing, Weight, Way

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• With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Writing, Rights, Passionate

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• I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

  Emma Caulfield

  Love Life, Thinking, Talking

  "Exclusive Q&A: Actress Emma Caulfield Picks the Right TiMER". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

  Alex Flinn

  Fun, Kids, Play

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• There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

  Ari Graynor

  Ideas, Pressure, Rough Drafts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

  Francois Gautier

  Writing, Europe, Asia

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• I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Brother, Kids

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Writing, Long, Mind

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• I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Philosophy, Writing, Trying

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