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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.

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• I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Light
  • Wilderness

• We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Try

• The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Change
  • Internet
  • Camera

• I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Me
  • Racism

• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Real
  • Today
  • Problem

• Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Sweet
  • Feet
  • Pet

• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Flight
  • Floating

• That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Life
  • Own
  • Away

• When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • America
  • Dad
  • Wanted

• I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Write

• I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Good
  • Painting
  • Cooking

• I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Life
  • Country
  • Art

• I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • American

• The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Realizing
  • Dishes

• In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Women
  • Community
  • Playing

• I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • People
  • Kids
  • Dream

• It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Purpose
  • Travel
  • Years

• New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.

  

  Les Claypool