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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Learn

• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Books
  • Will
  • Talk

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Life
  • Game
  • Man

• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • World
  • Child

• I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Always
  • Person
  • Going

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • History
  • Road

• Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Different
  • Own
  • Personal

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Cold

• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Street

• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Working

• I never questioned where I am, because I know that where I am is where I’m supposed to be.

  

  Jordan Pruitt
  • Know
  • Where
  • Supposed

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Simple
  • Possible
  • Complexity

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • God
  • Money

• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

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