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My mediocrity is no secret; My battles with it are

Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether ...

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a ...

The fundamental mistake I had always made ... was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine ...

I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and ...

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional ...

Christ slackens off all my chains.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits ...

Because you can be upset while you're eating chocolate Santas. But it's much, much, much more difficult.

I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the ...

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always ...

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination ...

TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you ...

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last ...

The joy of travel does not lie in reaching the destination, but in the companions met with on the journey, the changing scenery through which ...

Ser Alliser Thorne walked from the room so stiffly it looked as though he had a dagger up his butt.

If imagination, as we've said, is the "region of discovery," story is the wardrobe door, sending our young people "further in" and "still further in" ...

The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition ...

Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved ...

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone ...

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ...

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the ...

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook ...

Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me ...

Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. The bloody hour ...

Accept obstacles as a strength building exercise on the way to success.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. ...

Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and ...

My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say ...

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in ...

Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. ...

The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.

Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional ...

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, ...

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and ...

I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do ...

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move ...

I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon ...

Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on ...

When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get ...

God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by ...

My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and ...

My oldest son used to say his stomach had angries when he felt sick. I always pictured an all night fight club for finger foods!!

One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your ...

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking ...

[Love] ... that sick kind of wanting that rips at your soul while making you look like some kind of psycho to the rest of ...

He swore quietly and shook his head. He tried to see some logic in the situation. His deep, angry growl echoed in the room, multiplied ...

For three years Albert would stay huddled in his den during the day and see almost no one, content to be alone with his books. ...

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, ...

The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the ...

She groaned and closed those eyes. "Do not look at me like that. You will make me smile, and I refuse to smile when I ...

A Searcher, a Wolf Son and a Warrior," she announced. I suppressed a laugh. I almost expected her to say "walked into a bar.

Be Good-Do Good-Be One

Bones is, in short, my hero. She is like a one-woman marketing campaign for smart girls.

O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone ...

But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.-The Pagoda

I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I ...

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation ...

As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude ... in short, a ...

The young world was without a spring: it knew nothing beyond rock and water. There was the colour of open skies and of sunrise and ...

Small decisions made over times make big impacts.

Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion ...

Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're ...

I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But ...

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very ...

The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can't see beyond trying ...

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of ...

Friends are a special kind of love because they are there for one another like no other relationship can be.

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things ...

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive ...

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as ...

In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late ...

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Savage Sam Tarly, whose sword, Heartsbane, was said to be red from hilt to point after the dozens of Dornishmen he cut down in the ...

The thin line between life and death is still under construction.

Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a ...

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating ...

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand ...

God will sometimes allow things to get bad enough that we will be forced to look up. Victory always begins with a cry for help. ...

When my heart yearn for silence in a crowd full of cheerful people, thats not the lonliness i seek but want to feel the rustling ...

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...

She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as ...

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, ...

I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of ...

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of ...

You are the best, most loving, supportive family anyone could ever have," I said through my sobs. "I'm so sorry if I'm a burden."They all ...

Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed ...

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to ...

You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other ...

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.