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I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

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• When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Myself
  • Exercise
  • Bike

• I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Believe
  • Intelligent
  • Fans

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Like
  • Looks

• There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Game

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Human
  • Fight
  • Exploitation

• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Thought
  • Better

• Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Really

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with

  

  Aberjhani
  • Light
  • Author

• I am anxious to get as many of these negro regiments as possible, and to have them full, and completely equipped. I am particularly desirous of organizing a regiment of heavy artillery from the negroes, to garrison this place, and shall do so as soon as possible.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant

• If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • People
  • Real
  • Light

• Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Game
  • Win

• Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

  

  Mark Richardson
  • Forever
  • Lessons
  • Reminders

• I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

  

  Gemma Files
  • Poetry
  • Prefer
  • Effective