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		You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Bender 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Giffords 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Florida Scott-Maxwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karin Slaughter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eavan Boland 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Page 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yani Tseng 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Narciso Rodriguez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Tucker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irvine Welsh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Jaspers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Is all our Life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro.Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lewis Carroll 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Queen Elizabeth II 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zinedine Zidane 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lionel Shriver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Bender