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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist blocked happened ice period purple storm wrote
What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
american-novelist dramatic offer stories
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
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On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. Judith Krantz
american-novelist fact fiction interest party people press
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. Joe Wilson
american-novelist children fathers hearts turn
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
american-novelist few jobs knew possible time
Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married. John Hawkes
american-novelist bits felt nest strangely straw worked
But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different. Edmund White
american-novelist life moment truly
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
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Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.
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Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition. Ruth Warrick
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The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot. Kelly Packard
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That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.
beautiful gun boys
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India. Aravind Adiga
beautiful gun reality
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things. Ben Okri
beautiful religious land
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. Barbara Kingsolver
beautiful fun artist
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually. Ayelet Waldman
beautiful thinking different
I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.
empty imagine onto palette
As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do. Rhys Ifans
empty good
It wouldn't be good to have an empty building, would it?
empty games positive seats
Everything around the Games is not as positive if there are empty seats in the building.
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There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour. Henning Mankell
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When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. George W. Bush
empty-mind information transformation
Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation Shiv Khera
empty-rooms house together
They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark"). Miranda July
empty loud
So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said. Charles Churchill
empty great helps home homes otherwise parents program provide
I'm a parent. We all want great futures for our kids. The after-school program helps to provide that for these kids. Otherwise many of them would go home to empty homes because their parents have to work. Maria Shriver
rooms plenty
At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older. Brad Gilbert
rooms speak disposition
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb. Jane Austen
rooms looks born
Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room. Eckhart Tolle
room showing start support talked
We talked in this room that we had to start showing a little support for the support we get up in the stands. Matt Hendricks
rooms complexity humans
Religion leaves no room for human complexity. Daniel Radcliffe
rooms return ethics
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals. Cory Doctorow
rooms
There is room in history for all of us. Alexander McCall Smith
rooms feng-shui here-and-there
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. Drew Barrymore
rooms
I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking. Douglas Wilson
versions
Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis. Daniel Tosh
version younger
He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. Mike Rucker
york
I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally. Santiago Cabrera
york
That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top. Eddy Curry
york
I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure. Antonio Sabato, Jr.