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Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen ...
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice ...
It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean ...
Greatness is the flower of great adversity.
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.
Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.
My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise ...
You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art ...
It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, ...
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater ...
When liberals equate criticizing Islamic doctrine with anti-Muslim bigotry, it leaves a vacuum that is too frequently filled by genuine right-wing anti-Muslim bigots who are ...
The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a ...
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is ...
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making ...
Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So ...
There is a popular saying in Japan that goes "Tada yori takai mono wa nai," meaning: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of ...
I don't believe that happily ever after means we never have disagreements or go through conflicts. What I do believe is that there is someone ...
I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours.""It never was brilliant. Anyway, who ...
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou ...
Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby
Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories ...
He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love.
The way I figure is we win as a team and we lose as a team, but I've got to figure out some way where ...
There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or ...
Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You can not withstand the storm.'The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.
You do not own me. I do not own you.
Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good ...
I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative ...
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 ...
I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.
The Rock is going to lay the smacketh down on your candy ass!
A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes ...
I have learned one lesson as a writer ... keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today ... ...
Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,And die as fast ...
Two wrongs never equal a right but the hardest time to do right is when someone does you wrong! EL
If we want to follow someone, we can't go faster than the one who is leading.
I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking ...
What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about ...
I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.
We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One ...
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand ...
You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have ...
It's just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and ...
I now walk into the wild.
There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been ...
Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes.
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. ...
Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 ...
Money rules the world, and doubtless also, here and there, the bit of love within it, and when love turns to hate, one remembers unpaid ...
There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always ...
Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.
He had plans all right, he thought as Sarah trotted off. To eat crow.He wasn't sure what it tasted like, but he already knew he ...
We're strong together, Hayley. Stronger then we are apart.""I don't feel strong," I whisper."Then I'll be strong enough for both of us."My fingers dig into ...
Are you already drunk?" "No. Just ... in a weird mood." And it's true. I feel unsteady like if I stop moving I'll crack and ...
Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in Heaven, made to kiss God's ass forever. What you ...
My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child ...
What a glorious morning this is!
In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.
People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be ...
We'd like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.
But you know, as I do, that the storm will passAnd that the implacable sun doesn't simply stopWhen obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,Which is ...
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We ...
A person (or an animal) who feels there are no alternatives will fight even when violence isn't justified, even when the consequences are perceived as ...
To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a ...
I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, ...
She didn't look like a Willow Queen. Of course, I'm not sure what exactly I expected - maybe something akin to Glinda the Good Witch. ...
Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the ...
Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and ...
Put me down." Of course, the man couldn't hear her. She barely heard the scratchy whisper. "I said - ""I heard you, Mrs. McBride, but ...
I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All ...
Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born ...
My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you ...
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
I can't remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar in meA wound that ...
I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. ...
I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. ...
Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you ...
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies ...
After all, when one approaches Middle Age ... ""Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane?""No, never," said Miss Thane, looking blandly up ...
You seem so far away though you are standing near.You made me feel alive, but something died I fear.I really tried to make it out, ...
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
It can be unhelpful to wax eloquent about the inerrancy of Scripture without an accompanying acknowledgment that, while Scripture may be inerrant, there are no ...
Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to ...
Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried ...
You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do ...
Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to ...
A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide ...
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie ...
They do love their pretty colors," grumbled Tolya. "Don't give me any ideas," I whispered. "Maybe I'll decide my personal guard should wear bright yellow ...
What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone ...
I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare ...
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.