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		Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				William Shakespeare 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Sandburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Prepon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vincent Cassel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vance Joy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pete Hamill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rabindranath Tagore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Summer Sanders 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my youth, growing up in a Jewish milieu, there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abraham Joshua Heschel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				William Shakespeare