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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.


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DR. MEREDITH HYDE Usually management students come to London in the fall, whereas now they are attending in the spring...
DR. MEREDITH HYDE We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do y...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was abl...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people wh...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE What's weird is when you mean a lot more to somebody else than they ever meant to you. I mean, a who...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?”
“You have a lot to learn about the world, b...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's hous...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for mor...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shou...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to wat...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an ex...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work ...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer ...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in ...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY