![When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-the-publisher-here-in-america-wanted-to-put-the-word-memoir-on-the-title-p.jpg)
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independent creative desire
When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be. Aja Naomi King
independent thinking choices
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. John Avlon
independent character sparks
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. David Nicholls
independent caucus democrat
I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats. Bernie Sanders
independent reality thinking
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. Albert Einstein
independent men race
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.
independent ideas creative
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.
independent media support
The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future of listener-powered community radio. Amy Goodman
independent rights citizens
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. Andrew Jackson
winter white snow
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. e. e. cummings
winter shining frost
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! Alexander Pope
winter snow earth
Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow T. S. Eliot
winter rivers yield
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all. Sophocles
winter office
Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear. Tamara Mellon
winter together teeth
I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together. Sylvia Plath
winter potatoes chickens
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. Alexandra Guarnaschelli
winter endless
What am I doing here in this endless winter? Franz Kafka
winter wind mountain
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself. Henry David Thoreau
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A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right. Dick Cheney
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As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here. Leigh Steinberg
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The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.
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A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. Nancy Reagan
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A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy. E. B. White
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A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.
american-entertainer people
People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.
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North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.
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North America is where their biggest weakness has been over the past few years.