Jodi Picoult Quotes
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
Imelda May
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Jack Keane
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
Hannibal Buress
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
Jack Kilby
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
Ralph Marston
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
Mahershala Ali
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
Mark Leibovich
Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
Dalai Lama
If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
Dana Plato
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
Amelie Nothomb
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
Jasper Fforde
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult
