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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Band
  • Same
  • Diversity

• Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Interesting

• I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Words
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Hand
  • Need
  • Dignity

• Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Feel
  • Face
  • Radio

• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • College
  • Football
  • Learn

• Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • God
  • Different
  • Women

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Women

• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

  

  James Montgomery

• Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Dad
  • Superhero

• The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Together

• I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

  

  Carol Bly
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