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I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It ...
I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even ...
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her ...
We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.
Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
Life isn't about being perfect and sometimes life sure as hell isn't about having perfect timing. It just is. Either you embrace it or you ...
The shade melted away as the sun climbed into its zenith. All colors were now covered in stone dust. The only vigorous activity came from ...
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut ...
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that ...
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertivelywhich means to live authenticallyis an act of high courage. That is why so ...
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer ...
A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage ...
If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.
For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching ...
Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel ...
I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...
I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have ...
The next question is how? How does news find us? What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost ...
There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only ...
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated ...
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in ...
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it ...
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad ...
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his ...
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at ...
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at ...
He snorts more cocaine, I could pull over and roll him out the door, but he's on so much blow right now that he would ...
Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.
Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is ...
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires ...
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is ...
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around ...
Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring ...
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and ...
Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a ...
I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal ...
Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat ...
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, ...
Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to ...
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...
Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...
I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. ...
I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really ...
And, anyway it's not always about fitting in.""It's not?""Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.
NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and ...
We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a ...
If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is ...
Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging ...
The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...
Memories of my youth carried a lot of baggage.
If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.
I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph ...
Whiskey doesn't mix well with toothpaste, but I already filled the glass, and once whiskey's been let loose you have to deal with it, like ...
There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, ...
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before ...
I don't care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he's addicted to craps.
One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long ...
Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others ...
What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.
I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what ...
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big ...
Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege.
This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light as ...
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government,
You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't ...
The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of ...
The door with a little more force than necessary and stepped inside the cool air-conditioned living room, leaving behind the
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be ...
It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of ...
You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance ...
Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.
...when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.~ Fiona MacCarrick ~
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of ...
Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.
You have to work harder to achieve your goals
Believe in yourself, even if you feel like turning back at times. Don't run away. Little by little you will get closer to achieving your ...
You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you ...
You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a ...
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one of the differences ...
The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, ...
Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends,
Markets need not be in sync with one another. Simultaneously, the bond market can be priced for sustained tough times, the equity market for a ...
It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt.
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of ...