Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.
Nuala O'Faolain
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Harold Washington
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
Becky Lynch
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
Tamora Pierce
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Nancy Gibbs
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When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.
Laurent Brancowitz
Phoenix
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I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.
John Prescott
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The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
Joseph Heller
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Bill Clinton fascinates me because, at the time, it seemed like his shenanigans and the people after him were the biggest political stories you could ever imagine. I remember when the 'Starr Report' was published in the newspaper, all of us were reading it in the high-school cafeteria, and a dean started taking the newspapers away from us.
John Mulaney
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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
William Lewis Safir
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If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.
Nuala O'Faolain
