Quotes About Progress

In the academies, people develop differently, and going into that No 10 role helped me because central midfield was always packed with big, strong boys.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

I think any time you can go out and put pads on and practice before the season, I think it's a good sign. It's a good sign.

You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.

I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm not getting a nice momentum, and more than that, I'm probably putting out too much crap.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.