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		I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. G. Wodehouse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Zukav 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ramez Naam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gareth Gates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saad Hariri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Clarkson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Danson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lascelles Abercrombie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katha Pollitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Elder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Fairchild 
			 
			
				Little Big Town  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vera Wang