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What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.
That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. ...
I don't believe in following a path set by others. You have to create a path for yourself.
The best boyfriends are the ones in books.
Dream and imagine what you want and you will bring it into reality.
No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.
His life changed history. His courage changed lives.
Apparently zombie killing wears him out. I slip beneath my flannel covers and fire up my e-reader. I always said I wouldn't get one; that ...
Instead of trying to come up with a vision and make innovation happen themselves, a leader of innovation creates a place - a context, an ...
Music is heard in the background. As the movemnt becomes sharper; the many dancers acting but as one. She is one with her secret. As ...
What I want are words to define myself without the connotations of absence.
Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the ...
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
You don't need to use your own cash or credit to buy apartments.
Well I didn't what any added perks," I tell her.
You would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million dollars. And you'd probably call somebody.
There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel ...
My name is Kaida, and I am Nyiathan.
But good girls dont do that, dont make a fuss, dont upset parents. and i was a good girl so i curled up on the ...
I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.
Climb a mountain. See the world at your feet.
For 20 years, I faced 'Get Outs' (by publishers), did not sell copies of my books, but I kept on trying. Junoon hona bahut zaruri ...
People talk about the joy of running--of the endorphins and reaching a Zen-like clarity of mind. This had never happened to me. Mostly, all I ...
How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.
When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about ...
Whole food that typically has only one ingredient, like "brown rice," or no ingredient label at all, as with fruits and vegetables!
Do not take your lover for granted. Always try and plan surprises, give of your time and of yourself but be grateful for what comes ...
The doorway to health, higher intelligence and inexhaustible creativity lies in your willingness to live from Source. Risk being who you are meant to be; ...
As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.
I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving ...
Food is a wonderful source of pleasure - but it will get you into trouble if it's the only source of pleasure you have in ...
Just in case you're wondering, I have no desire to off myself. I do, however, have other desires. Shame I'm so weak right now. I ...
My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted ...
Because something inside me had changed and I realized things would never be the same.
If you want to be successful in life learn how to be a servant
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and ...
If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic ...
I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against ...
Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don't write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your ...
Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in ...
Cheeky comments couldn't hide.
There is one thing that I do find extraordinary and it never ceases to amaze me. That even in this day and age, in any ...
Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
My last moments on earth would be spent in a Golden Nugget bathtub with crushed beer cans scattered across my faux Venetian tile and acrylic ...
Each and every protest is a wave that moves us beyond the stagnant waters of servitude and oppression toward the shores of self-respect." Her