Debra Dean Quotes
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
Debra Dean
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
Patrick deWitt
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice
There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
Daniel Ellsberg
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
Frances Beinecke
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Carlos Fuentes
God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
Queen Latifah
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot
Some people will always be disappointed.
Len Wiseman
If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
Ben Harper
Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
Florence Scovel Shinn
I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
Buzz Aldrin
You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?" "What?" "Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?" "I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.
Rachel Caine
Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
Alexander McQueen
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
Rabia Basri
Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.
Madeleine de Souvre
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.
Charles Dickens
