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I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

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• If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Girlfriend

• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Way
  • Find
  • Process

• I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Earth

• The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Mirror

• Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Channel

• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Cake
  • Bourbon
  • Proust

• I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Thing
  • Very

• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Progress
  • Sacrifice
  • Survival

• We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Pain

• The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Hire

• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Language
  • Broken

• The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Levels
  • Debate

• I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Mother
  • Balance
  • Restriction

• The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • Understand
  • Function
  • Shortcoming

• I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. I was born for you. Above, below, by you, by you surrounded. I wake to you at dawn. Never break your Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me, I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Night
  • Reach
  • Thirst

• I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

  

  Rebecca Makkai
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