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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November 19, 2015June 6, 2026

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

Tom Clancy

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

M. K. Simmons

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lisa See

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

Stephen Wright

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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.