I think the idea of a 'perfect job' is a myth - there are pros and cons of every position, good days and bad days, and even what most people would consider dream jobs come with their share of downsides.


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That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
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I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to s...
KATHRYN DAVIS
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if i...
KATHRYN LASKY
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
KATHRYN LASKY
When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
KATHRYN PRESCOTT
I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a fathe...
KATHRYN HARRISON
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was...
KATHRYN HARRISON
Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an espla...
KATHRYN HULME
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
KATHRYN BIGELOW
Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
- Um dia, um marciano sábio vem à terra para ensinar umas coisinhas às pessoas - começo.
- ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all th...
KATHRYN DAVIS
To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the als...
KATHRYN SCHULZ
It is disconcerting to me some of the comments that have been made.
KATHRYN BENFIELD
They are really a big boost to our circulation.
KATHRYN BLEHART
Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmeti...
KATHRYN LASKY
The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited fo...
KATHRYN MICHAELS
I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and fo...
KATHRYN HARRISON
The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demen...
KATHRYN HULME
Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
KATHRYN HULME
Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
KATHRYN LASKY
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
KATHRYN LASKY
Make sure you have a signed, detailed contract -- one that details everything the facility might pro...
KATHRYN HORTON
The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.
KATHRYN HULME
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art wo...
KATHRYN BIGELOW
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought th...
KATHRYN LASKY
I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I ca...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT
Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and ...
KATHRYN HARRISON
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
KATHRYN BIGELOW
Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just...
KATHRYN EDIN
The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.
KATHRYN SMITH
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
KATHRYN HARRISON
I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were Britis...
KATHRYN HARRISON
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-u...
KATHRYN BIGELOW
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen ...
KATHRYN BIGELOW
He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our chil...
KATHRYN HARRISON
Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentio...
KATHRYN KRAMER
The first thing we ask is if they need any hotel rooms -- if it's 10 or more rooms, there are better...
KATHRYN HORTON
It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final...
KATHRYN CRAFT
Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked a...
KATHRYN LASKY
I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring ba...
KATHRYN PEREZ
This new single supply video driver is very highly integrated. The filter removes GSM burst noise wh...
KATHRYN TUCKER
As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to ...
KATHRYN MCCORMICK
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters a...
KATHRYN LASKY
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.
KATHRYN BIGELOW
The proximity of Mary filled him with excitement; he had to work to slow his breathing. A drop, anot...
KATHRYN DAVIS
The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference...
KATHRYN SCHULZ
According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot an...
KATHRYN DAVIS
The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to...
KATHRYN HARRISON
A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
KATHRYN HARRISON
So what was Jonah like before high school? As a kid?”
“As a kid?” Hallelujah brings up th...
KATHRYN HOLMES
Possibly, the root of my reaction against abortion is one of self-interest and of self-identificatio...
KATHRYN REED
I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into N...
KATHRYN ERSKINE
'Yosemite' opened doors for me in the New York theater community in amazing ways. There'...
KATHRYN ERBE