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		All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Michael Straczynski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Landon Donovan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to be judged on my own merits. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Park Geun-hye 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Queen Elizabeth II 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mae West 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The main thing is to make history, not to write it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Otto von Bismarck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fabrizio Moreira 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vidal Sassoon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Armond White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brooke Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Zoe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone.
Your fiction is with you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beth Kephart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Michael Straczynski