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Related What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achiev... TAMORA PIERCE Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... ... GARRY TRUDEAU All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader, ... Bu... GARRY TRUDEAU We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. Wh... CECELIA AHERN Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why the... CECELIA AHERN If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya [subjects ... 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CECELIA AHERN What I hope (readers) take from the book is the things that are good for them and have a good time w... DANA JACOBI We talk to the kids for a few minutes about the piece and ask them what they see. Then we get them t... BEN CLARK Everything I write is meant to share what I'm struggling with. I hope that it helps other people... NIR EYAL I want these girls to take away (from the conference) that they can be anything. They can do anythin... JENNY CHAMBERLAIN They got their composure back. I have to salute them on that. But South Plantation, you can't take a... MELVIN RANDALL Well, not to take anything away from Miami. But guys, that was a gift. BERNIE BICKERSTAFF I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I'v... ANN BRASHARES These are all activities that parents can do along with their child or supply materials and walk awa... MISSY STOVER The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing... CHAD KELLY if it really stands out from the first film, ... if you can just take it on its own and it blows you... DANIEL DAVIS We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can... JOYCE MEYER The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of educatio... W. E. B. DU BOIS But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, the... BORIS JOHNSON "The devil made me do it" I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do... NEIL GAIMAN I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've al... DON SILVER I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and n... LAYTON ALIVIADO Besides, it's all about the team. If you get too caught up in your own individual awards, it takes a... LINDSAY WHALEN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS If it meant I was just gone from their lives for 10 hours at a stretch, I wasn't interested. I would... AMY DELUCA There's some of that, and then some of that is just sheer determination, guts, and talent. He is a p... JON GRUDEN If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own commun... ALEX STEFFEN IF WE LOVE AND ENJOY THE WORK WE DO THEN IT IS ALWAYS A BONUS TO GET PAID FOR IT ! DR.PRASAD RAJHANS The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they... D. J. MACHALE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in... LORD MELBOURNE No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something th... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my read... CARL BARKS My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very importa... VICTORIA WOOD That always helps, it always pulls you along, when you have someone ahead of you like that and you r... EMILY PAPA At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ... KATE CHRISTENSEN If it wasn't for something like this, there's some kids that wouldn't be doing anything at all. This... KAHL MUSCOTT If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own li... ALBERT CAMUS Mentally it always helps tremendously to get the jump right away. Of course, that helps the pitcher ... DONNA PROCTOR I'm not disappointed. I've never seen a group of kids put together a half of basketball like this be... LEONARD BARNES They insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take ever... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their ... BEVERLY CLEARY As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite fro... DEBORAH BRAY HADDOCK When I read reviews, I go right past the plot. I don't want to read anything about the story, and I ... CAMPBELL SCOTT Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives. Once you remember that sentence then it’... OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI We empower individuals and want them to take charge of their lives. Having a disability does not pre... LIN LAING If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to fee... BRIAN SUTTON-SMITH They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that fro... CHRISTINA HENRY If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving busi... BARBARA CORCORAN For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan... THOMAS MORE Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t... IRIS MURDOCH It is a tough program with a lot of obstacles. Each person is faced with their own unique challenges... ROBERT COLEMAN I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then th... T. BOONE PICKENS These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that matter... DAVE ALLISON That won't take anything away from the game. This week is all about tradition and bragging rights fo... GREG WILLIAMS However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that ... LYNN COADY Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that t... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they a... SANAYA ROMAN become as much a part of their books as do the readers, and they escape into the worlds they have cr... ROBERT VAUGHAN Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a mi... RAM DASS 32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall... JAMES C. DOBSON Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers... CECELIA AHERN All sorts of different things motivate people to do things - and from a storytelling standpoint, if ... BEN WAGNER The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first j... KENNETH APFEL That was big. Not to take anything away from them (Clinton). They've got an excellent ball team. We ... JASON NIBLETT I tell them, anything better than this is a bonus. CLIFF HITE A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words a... URSULA K. LE GUIN If things emerge reasonably well in Gaza, then the door is open for further moves, wider decisions, ... SHIMON PERES I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made b... KARL OVE KNAUSGåRD Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long en... SHANDY L. KURTH Honestly, we thought it was unfortunate, but it didn't change the mind-set of the team. I think it'd... MATHIAS KIWANUKA Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their ... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and ... REBECCA MEAD When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discove... ALBERT EINSTEIN Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days si... NEIL GAIMAN At first we like to show our dominance and then we entertain you from there. We say we're basketball... HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happ... JEFF SESSIONS For us, Easter has new meaning than it ever did in the past. I was the skeptic when it came to this ... JAMES HURST I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' a... GRAEME BASE I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I always tell prospective new members to think of two-or-three pet projects they would like to do in... CHERYL VOYNA Privacy exposure is the biggest mistake every user makes. People often say “I have nothing to hide... JOE SHENOUDA Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect ag... CECELIA AHERN Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You... VICTORIA SCHWAB That’s why I’m here, I’m here for two reasons. To entertain you with stories of my life so , y... DAN HOWELL It's definitely unusual, but I'm not surprised because John is a tremendous athlete. We have an unde... CRAIG POWERS Just let them do their job. If anybody is charged, then you take it from there. JOE TAMBURINO
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But from the sta... CECELIA AHERN I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird s... CECELIA AHERN Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. T... CECELIA AHERN Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. CECELIA AHERN Home isn't a place, its a feeling CECELIA AHERN It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I... CECELIA AHERN 1. You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fig... CECELIA RODRIGUEZ Do not be in a hurry; depend upon it, the right Man will come at last; you will in the course of the... CECELIA RODRIGUEZ We spend so much time in the office that our co-workers become our extended family. The key is to re... CECELIA DWYER How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others. JUNE AHERN Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you. JUNE AHERN Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs. BILL AHERN Officials offered to take four percentage points off that, BILL AHERN Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. BILL AHERN Even though there is an element of fairness in that proposal, we wouldn't recommend it. It sets a da... BILL AHERN It shows that the institutions are working, BERTIE AHERN the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. BERTIE AHERN This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don... BERTIE AHERN The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. Th... BERTIE AHERN It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible. BERTIE AHERN A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Othe... 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