I didn't care where my works were published.
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I didn't care where my works were published.
BEN SHAHN I read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARY i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something...
WOW I learned of my clients' pardons when their names were published in the newspaper,
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote ...
JONATHAN KOZOL Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
BEN SHAHN I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photo...
BEN SHAHN I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to d...
BEN SHAHN I could flatter myself in thinking our photographs brought Roosevelt in in '36 overwhelmingly. But b...
BEN SHAHN I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pi...
BEN SHAHN I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
BEN SHAHN Self Portrait among the Churchgoers, 1939,
BEN SHAHN His every line of writing was art. And yet such art was inseparable from its life content.
BEN SHAHN The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
BEN SHAHN An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A profession...
BEN SHAHN I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pi...
BEN SHAHN I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Spec...
BEN SHAHN If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take hi...
BEN SHAHN I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick...
BEN SHAHN I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
BEN SHAHN I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossib...
BEN SHAHN In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I ...
BEN SHAHN Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time t...
BEN SHAHN The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middl...
BEN SHAHN When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very...
BEN SHAHN It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
BEN SHAHN I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly ...
BEN SHAHN I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically i...
BEN SHAHN In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
BEN SHAHN It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it aft...
BEN SHAHN It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
BEN SHAHN Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
BEN SHAHN Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and thi...
BEN SHAHN So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around t...
BEN SHAHN Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
BEN SHAHN When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree...
BEN SHAHN I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography ...
BEN SHAHN Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even yea...
BEN SHAHN The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are,...
TIBOR FISCHER As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this fi...
DAVID DOUGLASS Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain t...
H.W. CHARLES Ben and Blake are two very talented newcomers. Ben has an incredible work ethic. He's always here, a...
CHARLIE BOWMAN And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publ...
PETER SOTOS I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books h...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years...
SIGMAR POLKE I have to go to work where I contribute to my health care.
GENE MANCINI JR The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID It works for paint, it works for squad cars, it works for insurance. Why not health care?
DAN THOMPSON My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thin...
TIGER WOODS Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.
GWEN STEFANI For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx wai...
CAO YU They were really clinging hard to Ben. Ben does a good job distributing the ball, and we got the sho...
TRAVIS BROWN I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite ...
RICHARD K. MORGAN Where nothing works, there Team works.
IMRAN NAZIR So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we...
LAUREN MYRACLE My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books...
ALEJANDRO AMENABAR The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we...
ANTONIO MCDYESS I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gath...
JONATHAN GALASSI Ben is so young, and he has so much to learn. Matt has arrived. But for the future, I would rather h...
WARREN MOON I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it sho...
ELIZABETH SCOTT In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lif...
GAO XINGJIAN Where they were having restrictions, now they don't care. Just bring your money.
DAVE MINTON The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!
CURLY HOWARD Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lif...
GAO XINGJIAN I don't care much where ...
ALICE WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I thought the fire works were spectacular.
DIANE MORGAN After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were mis...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been...
PHOEBE CARE I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
TASLIMA NASRIN Cassie?”
It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more ...
RICK YANCEY I know my opponent, that's Martha Simons, has been telling people that I care about the redevelopmen...
DAVID PIPER He's the barometer for their team. He is the heart and soul of their team. He can play three positio...
FLIP SAUNDERS I'm lucky and blessed that my books get published. There are many great writers out there whose work...
HEATHER NEFF I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, a...
DAVID PIERCY Your Honor, I committed the crime of being on the cover of Us magazine with Ben Affleck 100 times to...
JENNIFER LOPEZ It's Big Ben vs. Gentle Ben.
RICH YAMARONE I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Cl...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters...
JEFF KINNEY I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w...
BILL BURR My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misin...
BHAGAT SINGH I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
ARMIN VAN BUUREN Rigorous, published, peer-reviewed research clearly demonstrates that treatment works. Medications c...
BROOKE SHIELDS I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged...
LISA KLEYPAS I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
BEN CASNOCHA Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
[It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
Ch...
VITTORIO ALFIERI I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his...
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Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
BEN SHAHN I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photo...
BEN SHAHN I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to d...
BEN SHAHN I could flatter myself in thinking our photographs brought Roosevelt in in '36 overwhelmingly. But b...
BEN SHAHN I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pi...
BEN SHAHN I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
BEN SHAHN Self Portrait among the Churchgoers, 1939,
BEN SHAHN His every line of writing was art. And yet such art was inseparable from its life content.
BEN SHAHN The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
BEN SHAHN An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A profession...
BEN SHAHN I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pi...
BEN SHAHN I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Spec...
BEN SHAHN If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take hi...
BEN SHAHN I didn't care where my works were published.
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BEN SHAHN I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
BEN SHAHN I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossib...
BEN SHAHN In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I ...
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BEN SHAHN I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly ...
BEN SHAHN I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically i...
BEN SHAHN In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
BEN SHAHN It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it aft...
BEN SHAHN It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
BEN SHAHN Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
BEN SHAHN Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and thi...
BEN SHAHN So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around t...
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BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
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BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
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BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
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BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
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BEN STEIN If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
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BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
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BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
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BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
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BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON