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		I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. L. Stine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maj Sjowall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingrid Newkirk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Case 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Hacking 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Corcoran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cara Delevingne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Dern 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tammin Sursok 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Braff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irwin Thomas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The worst affected from corruption is the common man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kailash Kher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ramon Rodriguez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Shihab Nye 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Anderson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathaniel Philbrick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bebe Rexha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dale T. Mortensen