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Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show. -- Scott Rudin
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.' -- Candice Accola
Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections. -- William Cavendish
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. -- Vilfredo Pareto
Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. -- Diane Ackerman
But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change. -- William Weld
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections. -- Paul Auster
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. -- Vilfredo Pareto
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own. -- Siegfried Lenz
At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program. -- Janis Karpinski
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late. -- Barry Ritholtz
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections. -- Chris Lowe
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. -- Ron Chernow
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing. -- Italo Calvino
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did. -- Jimmy Carl Black
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes. -- Bruce Nauman
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired. -- Ian Fleming
When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films. -- Arjun Rampal
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk. -- Deborah Moggach
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections. -- Eugene Jarecki
People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount. -- Jayson Blair
I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does. -- Nick Harkaway
A painting is a collection of a series of corrections. -- Helen Van Wyk
I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction. -- Brenda Strong
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections. -- Peter Lynch
Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately. -- Vincent de Paul
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves. -- Peter Lynch
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. -- Vilfredo Pareto
Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible. -- Vince Lombardi
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.' -- Charles Graner
As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon. -- Maxwell Maltz
Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down. -- Diane Duane
"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability. -- Brenda Strong
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage. -- William Penn
I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool. -- Mark Ruffalo
One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say I am right, but I may be wrong. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in. -- Piper Kerman
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer. -- Victor Hugo

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