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• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Religious

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• I have a cat named Dandelion.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Cat
  • Named

• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Own
  • Before
  • Brainy

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Business
  • Peace

• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • War
  • Happen
  • Things Happen

• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Power
  • Together

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Home
  • Black
  • Orange

• I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Pride
  • Fat

• You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Future
  • Gold
  • Insurance

• What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

  

  David Filo
  • Good
  • Great
  • Important

• I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Society

• I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • American
  • Running
  • Inspired

• We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

  

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