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american-novelist certainly decide knowing life necessary novel
Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience. Judith Krantz
american-novelist education knowledge
Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do. Jim Rice
american-novelist equal giving lies people time vigilant weight
I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth. Joe Wilson
american-novelist relate relation thinking
I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people. Judith Guest
american-novelist border concerned reality struggles
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker. Ana Castillo
american-novelist bothered cannot deal father great history past present teach wasted
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. Russell Hoban
american-novelist bad except god novelist type
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. John Barth
american-novelist finding putting somehow
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
american-novelist came found guy house knocked letter lived somehow
I just got a letter from a guy in Japan. One of them somehow found out where I lived one day and came up to my house and knocked on my door. Tom Verlaine
imaginary-friend imaginary
All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. Joseph Brodsky
imaginary imaginary-friend stills
I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. Lee Ryan
imaginary land
It was so important that this not be an imaginary land. Mark Johnson
imaginary iran
AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,
imaginary maintain needed people reasons spent
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. Rickie Lee Jones
imaginary korean north nuclear peaceful talk
To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn, Nicholas Eberstadt
imaginary spending time
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people. Jane Lindskold
imaginary
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
imaginary life obviously ordinary rather retreat various writers
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
leaving personal responsibility strengthen strong
It is about our personal responsibility to strengthen our community. This is about making us strong enough and leaving a legacy. Blanche Lincoln
leaving needed side
I have been with him from day one, and I was not leaving his side when he needed me most.
leaving teammates
I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.
leaving might forget
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it Richard Wright
leaving matter abandon
We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you. Richelle Mead
leaving insightful
I'm not leaving until you say yes. Wayne Huizenga
leaving looks walking
He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back. Sarah Dessen
leaving reason respect wishes
The only reason that we're leaving is to respect the wishes of the family.
leaving
Then, come to find out, he's going to be leaving -- that's kind of tough, man. Jonathan Papelbon
office stack
Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia. Pete Carroll
office phone
He used my office to make phone calls,
office van
Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.
office open transition
We may just open our own transition office.
office
He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.
office-space lucky bigs
HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space. Ryan Holmes
office president answers
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something. Richard M. Nixon
office six nine
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. Wallace Stevens
office records want
What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office. William Howard Taft
safety workplace argument
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. Ron Chernow
safety ridiculous knows
Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that. Troy Polamalu
safety
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety. Virgil
safety giving going-away
Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing. Will Smith
safety important investing
The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety. Warren Buffett
safety choices absolutes
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. Salman Rushdie
safety safe england
You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.
safety world way
Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow. Wil Wheaton
safety risk growth
Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
skills well-being wells
Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills. Richard Davidson
skills way juxtaposition
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. William S. Burroughs
skills talking president
When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill. William J. Clinton
skills shame rashness
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. Roger Ascham
skills littles sticks
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies
skills criticism spleen
There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. William Congreve
skills ideas boredom
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom. Robert McCracken
skills ideas impact
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. Henry Rollins
skills discipline trying
I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.
tests experiments
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Richard P. Feynman
tests sometimes dangerous
Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.
tests theory accounts
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. William Whewell
tests olympics testing
HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test. Roger Goodell
tests bugs kind
I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. Will Wright
tests obstacles
Every obstacle is a test. Wayne Dyer
tests needs comedy
You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react. Rod Lurie
testimony value witnesses
The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero. Michael Ramsey
tests upbeat energetic
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. Barbara Ehrenreich