Will Pearson
Will Pearson
William E. Pearsonis the co-founder of mental floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University. Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their...
age loved terms
In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.
I'd never done anything as high profile or professional as 'Skins', so 'Skins' is where I've started.
I always wanted to go to a drama school.
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Thorough customers are our best customers. Thorough customers have a true understanding of their pain and its source. They make me prove how our product can deliver measurable ROI. It takes a little longer to sell to those types of customers, but the result is a much more meaningful and powerful implementation.
children remember
The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.
men names age
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.
children men light
My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.
came hand state
NCA is a progressive organization, and I don't know if the state went to them or if they came to the state, but they're working hand in hand,
children impossible-things answers
Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
mother stars boys
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
believe men want
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
It really frees you up from having to have someone there to help.
mother laughter balls
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
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I won't even begin to work with a client until they have completed a letter of intent, which deals with your hopes and dreams for the child, ... I tell the mom, who is often the one who writes it up, that they should write it as if they were an angel on the shoulder of the designated caregiver. She should include everything she would whisper in their ear.