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• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Together
  • Working Together

• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Live
  • Character
  • Blessings

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • God
  • Sense
  • Enthusiasm

• I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Kind
  • Any
  • Bigot

• When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Love
  • Art
  • Past

• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Me
  • Humble
  • Capacity

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Bridge
  • West
  • East

• It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Want

• There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
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