Norton Juster Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Naomi Klein
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
Olga Korbut
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
Joanne Rowling
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
Fran Tarkenton
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
Octavia Spencer
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
Hank Stram
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
Frances Farmer
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Oh, yeah - 'The Good Wife' was a lot of fun to do. It was a short scene I did, but Josh Charles was very nice, and Julianna Margulies was so sweet. We had a very good time.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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He's pretty darned good. I think he's as good as anyone in the county.
Lynn Barber
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Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
Lauren DeStefano
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
Norton Juster
