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Quotes by American Authors
"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."
"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
"You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more."
"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
"For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'."
"My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me."
"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."
"There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we write. We do not write because we must; we always have a choice. We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate. We communicate to connect, to know community."
"I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion."
"In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said."
"Truth is the greatest marketing campaign."
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged."
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
"Respect yourself enough to let go of someone who doesn't see your worth."
"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."
"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
"It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job."
"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."
"We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true."
"Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness."
"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"
"You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough."
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