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As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone. Rodman Philbrick
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Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. R. Laing
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The Supreme Court ultimately will rule on COPA, and we look forward to the day when we can receive the high court's opinion on our legislative effort to protect children from hard-core pornography
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After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place. Tori Spelling
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the most profound effect on children of any entertainer of his time. Jim Henson
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The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that's all that matters. Monica Bellucci
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The most important thing is to get children stabilized and get them into schools.
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Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started. Michael Morpurgo
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So you have this wonderful literary criticism in the middle of kindergarten class. The teacher says it really doesn't matter, but the first thing she did was show the children the bathroom. This is a question real children would have.
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As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.
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As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it. Demian Bichir
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A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
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People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.
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No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.
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No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole time, no way. Robert Ballard
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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. Richard Curtis
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During the course of that year, I'll probably have another book come out, ... I'll go on the road to promote it and do publicity. People think the life of a writer like me is easy. 'She writes those scandalous books and then she just lounges around.' Jackie Collins
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day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest. Eleanor Roosevelt
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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
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I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
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The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
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There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
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If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.