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• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Feel
  • Kid
  • Relaxed

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Space

• I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Beauty
  • Attractive
  • Sublime

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Long
  • Famous

• Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.

  

  Ovid

• The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Live

• First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Unknown

• Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• What chance has Vulcan against Roberts & Co., Jupiter against the lightning-rod and Hermes against the Credit Mobilier? All mythology overcomes and dominates and shapes the forces of nature in the imagination and by the imagination; it therefore vanishes with the advent of real mastery over them.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl

• I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Cool

• Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Today
  • Esteem
  • Dominant

• All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Reading

• Prefiero al mejor de los refugios las puertas de cualquier refugio.

  

  Antonio Porchia