Quotes about american-author
american-author education schooling
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
american-author heaven humor secret source
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
american-author fiction truth
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street. Robert Cormier
american-author course life
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. Ron Chernow
american-author field hit quite recession
I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981. R. A. Salvatore
american-author entire exactly genre
I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
american-author hopes intended numbered tangible
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
american-author editing few gave notions publishing stopped
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
american-author among bigger chinese money spent
But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game. Daniel Yergin
american-author imagined
I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? Alice Hoffman
american-author generally good harry interested might readers seem somebody willing
What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance. Michael Connelly
american-author becomes believe feeling reality whatever
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. Brian Tracy
american-author known
Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
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We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second. Reed Hastings
american-author fact measured taken truly
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Tony Robbins
american-author chief simply
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. Fred Saberhagen
american-author cheerful plus writer
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
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I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
american-author media regular
Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media. David Brock
american-author indeed organized
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
american-author basic concerned happens learning particular simply whatever
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life. Benjamin Hoff
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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. Gertrude Stein
american-author face gift pictures
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards. Gregg Easterbrook
american-author asked disney element might operating people
I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.
american-author sorts
Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
american-author history issue people
I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.
american-author fitting
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
american-author attacking espn viewed
I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
american-author button entire sees send
But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
american-author behaved dealing mistakes poorly starting stuff taking
I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
american-author behave beings human
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. Elizabeth Moon