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		Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Ferrante 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mandy Patinkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manuel Moroun 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Babbitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L'Wren Scott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ja Rule 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chris Stapleton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kevin Eubanks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Michael Arrington 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had this dream...that we had this new sixth member, for some reason, and he actually ended up being quite horrible! And he started a fight with me! And I wanted him to go away and none of the boys were helping me! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Louis Tomlinson 
			 
			
				One Direction  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Ferrante