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Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Moment
  • Eating
  • Breathing

• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Know
  • Community
  • Office

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• I can truly say - and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought - that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Church

• Language is the light of the mind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Language

• Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Environment
  • Mistakes
  • Politician

• Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

  

  Melina Mercouri
  • Victory
  • Desert
  • Greek

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
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