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I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.

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• I never use that word, retire.

  

  B. B. King
  • Never
  • Word
  • Retire

• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Different
  • American
  • Lost

• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Best
  • Wine
  • Champagne

• We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Rest
  • Body
  • Enough

• Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Always
  • Which

• If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • American
  • Dream

• I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Long
  • Face
  • Head

• I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Scared

• I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Point
  • Open
  • Bills

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Man
  • Really
  • Himself

• Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Myself
  • Advice
  • Ask

• For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Important
  • Listen

• I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Science
  • Community
  • Always

• I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Thought
  • Page

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• Meeting with the director is an audition.

  

  Chandler Massey

• A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • Easy
  • Photography

• The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

  

  James Thurber
  • Knowledge
  • Road

• Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

  

  Afia Nathaniel
  • Films
  • Pakistani
  • Male Ego

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.

  

  Opal Tometi