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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

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• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Often
  • Shocked

• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

  

  Beck
  • Me
  • Creating
  • Seeing

• If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • You
  • Enjoy

• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Day
  • Challenge

• The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Hands
  • Institution
  • Euro

• Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • History
  • Present
  • Honesty

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Enough
  • Gun

• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Face

• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Family
  • Me
  • Foundation

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Silence
  • Lose
  • Solitude

• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Moon

• I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Age
  • Criticism
  • Subjected

• If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • You
  • Me
  • Wrong

• Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • Sound

• My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Good
  • Music
  • Together

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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