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Everybody thought there was this bitter rivalry going on. In actuality, we didn't even know those guys back then.

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Poetry

• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Opportunities
  • White

• Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Fairness

• I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Economics

• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Spanish
  • Court
  • Jews

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Country
  • American
  • History

• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Change
  • Present
  • Democracy

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Moon

• To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

  

  Ted Lange
  • People
  • Job
  • Light

• Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Play

• The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Enough
  • Existence
  • Photography

• That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Music
  • Night
  • Party

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Everybody thought there was this bitter rivalry going on. In actuality, we didn't even know those guys back then.

  

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