It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
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L. Sprague De Camp, Author (1907) |
Gavyn Davies, Businessman (1950) |
Nick Ferguson, Athlete (1974) |
Robin Givens, Actress (1964) |
Marilyn Hacker, Poet (1942) |
Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity (1957) |
Callie Khouri, Writer (1957) |
Brooke Langton, Actress (1970) |
Bruce Lee, Actor (1940) |
Edward Bach, Scientist (1936) |
Jerome Cavanagh, Politician (1979) |
Irvin Kershner, Director (2010) |