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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • People
  • Stand
  • View

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Day

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Stage
  • Naked

• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Door
  • Moment

• When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • School
  • End
  • Connection

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Now
  • Teenagers

• I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • World
  • Believe
  • Look

• I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Today

• The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Hope
  • Beginning

• Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Progress

• This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

  

  Linda Grant
  • Powerful

• One must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Heaven

• I could use a little more body, but I'm happy with it.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Happy

• There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Kind

• My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Business
  • Attitude
  • Sales

• It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.

  

  David Ignatius