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The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow


Mani S. Sivasubramanian

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S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the me...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the b...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The brain abhors discrepancies.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ...
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