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• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Death
  • Dying

• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Team
  • Kid
  • Pool

• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • America
  • Party

• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Impossible

• I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Different
  • Together
  • City

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Look

• My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Freedom
  • Energy
  • Spirit

• I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth
  • Artist
  • Gods

• I've kind of done everything late.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Done

• At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Mom
  • Wonder

• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • America
  • House
  • Trump