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My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.
He should have just checked it. I don't understand why some people insist on hauling those giant bags around everywhere they go - not when ...
No one ever tells attractive children how much they suck, and then the rest of us get stuck with insufferable, narcissistic adults who can barely ...
I'm a real 'go, go' person ... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit ...
I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
Well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen,
We distance ourselves for protection,Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.
What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?
Progress IS Success
Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good.
He was like an infection that spread through my body, replicating in my mind and heart. Every
You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.
Patricia could see Remy dead. Her perfect corpse floating face down in the Oaxacan tiled infinity pool, her flawless stomach distended with decomposition gases, eyes ...
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly ...
Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.
Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that ...
She was attempting to flirt with him, in hopes he'd put in a good word for her with Captain Alvarez. Lost cause, Cadence, I thought. ...
A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De ...
Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of ...
I'll save that for Mrs. Battier.
Mary Henry ought to write romance novels. She has a way of embellishing that most authors would envy.
Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.
People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it ...
I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it.
I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.
Has become the leading scripting engine in computer games - and not just lightweights: We're looking at World of Warcraft, Lego MindStorms,
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.
Don't be sad by what you seeIt's true life has it's miseriesBut one thing's always worked for meWorry ends when faith begins.
Faithfulness is my promise to love you forever
Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.
You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture ...
How sad is it that in my world a human killer would be the best-case scenario?
We're all not as strong as we pretend, we only bend to be broken in half, don't try to laugh, your playing with a child's ...
Knew I had to walk with my head up, and learned that I'm a human and that we are capable of mistakes, disappointments, the right ...
We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn.
Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.
This was never your destiny," he snapped, glaring at me with devilish eyes."No," I replied casually, shrugging, "but it's the path I've chosen.
We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been ...
How deep the Father's love for us,How vast beyond all measureThat He should give His only SonTo make a wretch His treasure.
As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting ...
Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.
People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, ...
The only person who worries about my mother is God, and that's only because she wants His job.
Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.
Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to ...
It's a little early in our relationship for us to be 'surmounting,' but, hey, I'm game if you are. I'll even let you be on ...
Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for ...
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but ...
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why ...
They get frustrated more easily, and they just don't seem to learn from their mistakes.