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american-author graduate prefer princeton students taught teaching
I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs. Russell Banks
american-author given projects three
Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work. James Patterson
american-author people
We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. Keith Miller
american-author contend office time work
Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing. Kate DiCamillo
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I can go a year before an oil change. David Harris
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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. Richard Schickel
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation. Margaret Halsey
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Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. Jhumpa Lahiri
children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
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Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
children curiosity determined gain innocence kids
Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?
children city stop streets teach throwing
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
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Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
children dislike family loves surrounded
Keep yourself surrounded by a family that loves you. My children have never told me they dislike one of my paintings. Thomas Kinkade
children hope memory several talked
I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've done her memory justice. Reese Witherspoon
children fit funny kid life
He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.
children school thinks
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
offered
I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,
offered says york
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts. Bebe Neuwirth
offered people voluntary
If Qwest offered voluntary overtime, I think they'd find enough people to take it,
offered rebirth school
We're going through rebirth right now. And the school has offered a lot of support.
offered
Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect. Rob James-Collier
offered projects scripts work
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. Jeff Bridges
offered recession work worked
I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets. Ron Moody
offered percent plant share
We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.
offered standing usual wants
If he wants us to do an investigation, I've offered that we have the SBI standing by. This is cooperative. It's not the usual confrontational, sandbagging games.
presented problems took zone
Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.
presented together
They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,
presented wedding women
Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.
presented shot time tried
That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.
presented
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. Derrick Jensen
presented
The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor. O. Henry
reading
I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read, Harold Bloom
reading writing imagination
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Robert Creeley
reading mean kids
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading character may
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Richard Whately
reading ideas excellence
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. Richard Avedon
reading men fleas
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Samuel Rogers
reading wife secret
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed]. Rhys Ifans
reading thinking scripts
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. Rebecca Eaton