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american-author good graceful pleased writers-and-writing
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author empowered men women
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
american-author creating ethanol five four gasoline might percent within
Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia. Daniel Yergin
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
american-author best life love man woman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
american-author follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length. Robert Sheckley
american-author devoted family knowledge members odd women
So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends. Elizabeth Moon
life years keys
I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open Aravind Adiga
life motivational inspiration
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas
life motivational perseverance
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth
life and-love moments
Live life messy and love every moment of it. Ashley Smith
life hate love-is
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love. Baruch Spinoza
life dream killers
Isolation is a dream killer. Barbara Sher
life believe forever
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
life responsibility bewildered
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. Arthur Miller
life lying ridiculous
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
man might overnight settle success takes wise
A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success. Scottie Somers
man nowhere quieter retreat untroubled
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
man perot poor rich serious
Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business. Tommy Lapid
manuscript spring vanish
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! Edward Fitzgerald
managing people
Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again. Jill Soloway
man
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
mankind
Science is the only religion of mankind. Arthur C. Clarke
man
My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know. Stephanie Zimbalist
man
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. Ted Turner
social worker
The social worker told her there was hope.
social workers
This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good. Connie Smith
social social-change humiliate
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. Cesar Chavez
social somebody
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person. John Schneider
social badges idle
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. Dorothy L. Sayers
social profit conscience
a social conscience is not incompatible with profit. Anita Roddick
social starting very-good
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. Rob Portman
social-issues
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen. Rob Lowe
social riders
I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional. Ron Perlman