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biography consider life meets microcosm tim tumultuous
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' Karen Abbott
biography breaks nations publishing somebody
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs. Will Rogers
biography books bought life lived places
My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. David A. Adler
history underneath
Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that. M. Wolfe
history opportunity step
This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history. Eurico Guterres
history mean people series stories talk
That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game. Rich Brooks
history jackson lived slap
I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it. Eugene Levy
history
We want to go to the place where history started. Gary White
history battle conflict
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. Anton Chekhov
history women-empowerment development
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. Elizabeth Blackwell
history
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable. Philip Kerr
history knew players warren
Warren Spahn was one of those players before my time, but I knew a little history about him, Dontrelle Willis
needs program toward
This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency. Dick Lamm
needs social whale
The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met. Fred Felleman
needs internet bigs
Your needs are big because the Internet is big. Jamie Zawinski
needs generations generation-gap
Every generation needs regeneration Charles Spurgeon
needs enough enjoy
You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me. Dick Van Dyke
needs energy devotion
We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement. Bruce Lee
needs realizing moments
You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God Eckhart Tolle
needs looks who-we-are
No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it. Elif Safak
needs united-states best-education
We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive. Bruce Brown
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists poet ifs
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelist
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. Sarah Waters
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelist
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. Pearl Cleage
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
novelists
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. Ray Bradbury
opposed
I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget. Kate Winslet
opposed owned percent third time
(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time. Jim Arthaud
opposed success
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. Rand Paul
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writer
The more you live, the better writer you are. Meg Rosoff
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writer
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. John Irving