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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

by Kara Cooney

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“What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.”
― Noel Coward

tags: writing

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“Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.”
― Noël Coward

tags: wisdom

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“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

tags: motivational_for_the_unmotivated, philosophy

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“If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.”
― Noël Coward, A talent to amuse: A biography of Noël Coward

tags: craft, drama, entertainment, opinion, philosophy, surreptitious-meaning, writing

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