How Trump and Clinton prepare for debates…and how you can also prepare.

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I had no idea that Barack Obama curses before public speaking. I think I know at whom he curses before going on stage. I was as shocked to read that as I would have been to hear that 1950s-'60s movie star and cinematic symbol of chastity and virtue Doris Day cursed before going before the cameras. But I doubt that she did so. Doris Day? Fuhgeddaboudit! Anyhow, here's an article about how the current Democratic and Republican presidential candidates prepare for debates. It contains tips and advice you might find useful if you're faced with delivering a speech or engaging in a debate. Enjoy the public speaking article.

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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.