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Good Fiction hangs a story of a framework or lies that tells an emotional truth.
Mindy Kaling is so smart and hilarious.
Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.
For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
You know, all of us have fallen short of our dreams in life on occasion, but it is part of the Judeo-Christian spirit to give ...
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
The punishment itself could never be as bad as the anticipation
Deflect, Delegate, Defer or just Do it!
I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, ...
The sculptor starts with a block of stone and imagines the creation within. The writer takes the reader's imagination and fashions his creation from without.
What if after all this time, it wasn't the beast in the dungeon I needed to fear, but the beauty who lived in the castle ...
But then, with whatever time she had left, until life was taken from her, Neema would touch more pages; she would encounter there more of ...
We may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.
I'd say Hades will convert the Underworld into an ice skating rink before the king has a personality makeover.
Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
When you're in bed, you're dead.
Love not the world, the preacher said, and winked his eye, and shook his head; He seized on Tom, and Dick, and Ned, cut short ...
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.
You could have all the crazy thoughts you wanted, as long as you smiled and kept them to yourself.
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.
Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
Fights come from relationships with great passion in them
Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.
Sometimes forgiveness is a tough thing to muster up. And forgetting? Well, you have to find the forgiveness first. Hopefully the forgetting will come...with time.
Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you've been writing. ...
I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but ...
Oh, yes, that's right--my terms. I'm sorry, but you'll have to state clearly, for the record, in your own words, your clear-minded and sober intention ...
You hate most in others what you hate most in yourself
It isn't true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.
Behind any Strength lies a greater Love.
The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love ...
We are bound by our limitations to believe.
Another advantage of using the Internet is that you can choose and craft how other people perceive you by creating your profile according to the ...
There's something to be said for learning a race by close study of its outcasts. Who doesn't fit into a society can be just as ...
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.
I've missed you even more than I thought I would. And that's saying something, because I thought I'd miss you a lot
The worst part of being popular, is that you're never a no. 1 in someone's life
One day with knowing the reality is better than hundred years without knowing the reality.
It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.
Have a precursor as to what to expect. If we don't open the book and turn the page, we will never know what's in the ...
She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good. She
This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.
We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way ...
You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things ...
Impossible it self says I'm possible.
Morigu the desacration and morigu the dead great books but series is unfinished
All lives are stories, and history is made of stories.
You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get ...