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I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of ...
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.(p.115)
I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' ...
From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two.
No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - ...
I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could ...
Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
I don't believe things happen by accident. I think that everything that comes into our life, even the really hard things, are intended for good. ...
Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.Oh this is great. ...
Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of ...
Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is ...
Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.
Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an ...
Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.
I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.
My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the ...
Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with ...
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I ...
On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three ...
God is more interested in securing my forever happiness than my temporary happiness.
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt ...
I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down ...
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my ...
I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
Everything is your fault. You made me fall in love with you, and now I'm so upset I can't think or sleep or eat.
She nodded, taking his pistol and showing him the button to release the empty clip."Where did you learn how to shoot?" he asked."I teach high ...
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the ...
Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
Every Chess master was once a beginner
I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.""How sweet," Annabelle mumbled ...
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
He felt another tremor of emotion as he saw the faces of Chuck and Newt and Teresa in his mind's eye. A
But everything takes a different shape when we pass from abstractions to reality. In the former, everything must be subject to optimism, and we must ...
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into ...
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...
What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did ...
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but ...
Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can ...
A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.
What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school ...
'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the ...
The prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders encompasses intervening in the early years
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
He had the look of a well-fucked man, one who was sated and yet anticipating further pleasures ahead.
Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support ...
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy ... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has ...
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), "fire feeds on obstacles.
Opened my eyes, rolling my head in his direction. "Do something for me?" I asked. "What?" "If you honestly believe there's a chance I had ...
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter ...
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under ...
Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.
I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes ...
Merely wanting something is disempowering. Being committed to change your personal life and circumstances is empowering.
When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand ...
I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The ...
Immortality is a curse. It is heartbreaking. You cannot afford to get close to people.
Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever.
Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!
Wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.
A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires.
Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
It could take a lifetime to really get to know someone. Do we ever really know everything about the people we love? No, I think ...
The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: ...
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that ...
Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow ...
I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears.
When you learn to accept instead of expect, you'll have fewer disappointments. - Robert Fisher ...
I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it ...
Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let ...
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up ...
I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.
When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone ...
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the ...
I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just ...
Love isn't something you can put a timeline on, you know that right?As it would seem, fate had other plans for us. Wouldn't you agree?
Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want ...
If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us ...
Fair evening, Lady Pinkerton. I hope you enjoy satisfyingly deep breaths during your ride home." Part mortified, part despicably impressed, Catherine marched up the last ...
I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's ...
Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is ...
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who ...
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about ...
He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or ...
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy ...
Nothing is, everything is becoming.
One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular ...
Ascend, may you find so resistanceJust know that you made such a differenceAll you leave behind will live to the endThe cycle of suffering goes ...
I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my ...