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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
Karen Thompson Walker -
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
Pat Conroy -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin -
I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
Harrison Ford -
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
Ralph G. Neas -
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
Carl Bernstein -
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
Zadie Smith
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven -
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
Vincent Cassel -
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
Nadia Comaneci -
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry -
Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
Omari Hardwick
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
Alan Keyes -
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow -
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Margaret Wise Brown -
We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go. I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.
Marion Barry -
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.
Louis Dudek -
Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
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